Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on Feb 2, 2024 19:59:24 GMT
As per usual, written almost like diary entries, here are my 'finds' from the past month or so:-
For the second time in less than a month, I'm breaking my TV-am ban so I can score points from the DW fans. That's my reasoning for this, nothing more.
TV-am is generally best avoided until a full-scale inventory of their archive is made; I have explained this in a previous post.
That said, it's much more likely that if much TV-am is missing it's probably kids shows, and this Wide Awake Club features Kings Somborne's finest, a certain W. Gummidge esq. This is from 1987. Uploaded less than a year ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GHwID1kteM
This is a bit off-topic, but this footage was thought lost, it is British and features a well-known TV presenter. My excuses were already packed.
A few years ago I contacted Colin Grimshaw who made 'Film Talk' for Imperial College, and brilliantly, archived a great deal of the films. Imperial College had STOIC - Student Television Of Imperial College. Some of you may have seen the Jon Pertwee interview. There's a blog about their archives and so forth linked on the youtube channel. I did put him in touch with Kaleidoscope just in case they could help with anything as well.
Anyway, the video is part of the interview with James Burke recorded at Imperial College London. Until now, the interview was only held on the Master (inaccessible) Ampex Type A format videotape. However, during a recent digitising of U-matic videotapes, Colin discovered the last section of the interview that had, at some point, been copied over to a U-matic videotape. So here it is (well, part of it anyway), not seen since around 1980. This is from 06/11/1973.
This was only uploaded today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdA08r6dVrE
This came up on my 'recommended' on youtube - it's a 40 minute chunk of the Big Breakfast from 31/03/1995, with assorted continuity and bits:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSr8PowFvXc
ITV Schools fans may be interested to know I have located both parts of the allegedly missing Thames Schools episode of the English Programme strand 'Shakespeare and His Theatre'.
I've actually located multiple copies as it was sold globally....
Just so I can say I've made my first 'find' in Singapore, a copy is in the Singapore National Library on VHS. I'm guessing they got a copy in the 80s as the two episodes were originally broadcast in March 1978.
There are also copies in Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Israel, the United States, Canada and Australia....
www.worldcat.org/title/317812543
This is another Schools programming find. It's a copy of The English Programme by Thames (10/10/1977) which is part of the Pressures of Life strand and the episode is called 'Speech Day - 2'.
This one's in the collection of the Danish Union Catalogue and Danish National Bibliography in Ballerup, Denmark and I'm guessing by the description it's on U-matic:- search.worldcat.org/title/873365166
Another audio of a missing Crossroads episode has been digitized and uploaded anonymously to the Crossroads Appreciation Society. It's from the Sue Grainger collection of tapes and it's from 27/08/1974. I've included the link:-
www.facebook.com/1823612984741277/videos/1445577896311776/
As spotted by Tony Rees, not me, audio recordings of the band Free from Disco 2 (13/06/1970) and Colour Me Pop (12/04/1969).
Wonderful!
www.youtube.com/@thearchive70sandbeyond/videos
If you like "minority" programming, well, this is a pretty good find.... apologies to the other 99% of you!
Doing Things was a series of programmes made by some of the smaller regional ITV companies, and it ran in 1973. As you probably don't recall, I spotted a couple of bits of the series recently. By golly, I've done it again.
One of the editions was called ' Over One and Under Two Pull It Tight and It Will Do!' (14/05/1973), which I can assure you was not an adults-only programme. Anyway, in the National Library of Wales, it exists, under the somewhat less-eccentric title of 'Corn Dollies'. It's on colour film and seems to be complete. Quite obviously the reason it was thought lost was the fact it was mislabelled at some point and I have sympathy in buckets for whomsoever did that.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99708829602419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,Over%20One%20and%20Under%20Two%20Pull%20It%20Tight%20and%20It%20Will%20Do!&sortby=date_a&offset=0
Boring preamble bit:- In 1977, the BBC were among 7 broadcasters to link up to make a Christmas extravaganza called 'Star Over Bethlehem'. The programme was actually shown twice by the Beeb on 24/12/1977 and the following day as well.
The idea was so well received it was remade twice (once with 8 broadcasters participating in 1979, and back to 7 again for 1981).
The 1977 version though, is missing, the reason being that the 2-inch tape was damaged and they were unable to transfer it.
Or.... rather it WAS missing, because the short cap-wearing eejit here has just located a copy in the New Zealand Film Archive. I've been looking for this one for a while because I didn't think there was any way all 7 broadcasters would wipe it!
Details:- www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/TZP21327/?fbclid=IwAR0dbGYEImU7iQ5nJdywZctMxQo9hU_zWEMXZABeiYWnVltplc2nhv7sg5I
This is only a two minute interview from a wiped programme and it's been on youtube 12 years; the reason I'm flagging it is I've never noticed it.
This is an interview with Jane Wiedlin on Motormouth, 29/10/1988. For those of you who don't know her, she was in the Go-Go's, had a big UK hit with Rush Hour and a minor hit with Inside a Dream (which she's promoting here) and was also in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure as Joan of Arc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c-zk_YLGzY
The wonderful Jonathan Kydd has uploaded an episode of Pipkins just the now which was originally wiped.
It's 'Hartley in a Hurry' and it's from 15/04/1980.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRo4ynTeIc
Penny Garlick spotted this excerpt on a Bee Gees fan page on Facebook. I believe it's the missing concert when Lesley Gibb had to stand in for Robin.. Talk of the Town, BBC2, 17/05/1969:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FDqcNJcoUI
VHS Rewinds have uploaded a lengthy extract of a probably-wiped Pebble Mill at One from December 1979 featuring the Hollywood actress Bette Davis. Three episodes exist from that month and it's definitely not two of them, so it's at least a 92% chance that it's wiped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsmHCRX-Ctk
And just like your proverbial buses, Pebble Mill at One clips from December 1979 keep turning up.
This was spotted by Joñ Cottingham, not me.
This is opera singer Rita Hunter appearing on the show. Again a 92% chance it's lost:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Usk0hlcZw
In October 1974 JL released Whatever Gets You Through The Night. This had been released in the States two weeks earlier and advanced and early sales over there were great, so EMI in the UK were expecting superb things for the single. So much so, that they arranged for a cameraman to go and film John in New York on 17/10/1974 to make a specially-filmed promo for the single to be shown exclusively on Top of the Pops.
The trouble was that WGYTTN didn't chart higher than 36 in the UK, and that meant that TOTP didn't show it because of their oft-broken policy of not showing anything outside of the Top Thirty.
Come the New Year and it's time to release that second single from Walls and Bridges, #9 Dream and lo and behold, it actually reaches the Top Thirty. Of course, Mr Lennon still has his immigration problems in the US and he can't really leave the country and this is the time when he's getting back with Yoko as well, so he's not going to fly in and make an appearance at TVC. But wait, say the Beeb, we've got this unused film of Lennon prancing around NYC so why don't we just play this over the record.... and that's what they did.
Sounds too weird to be true, right? Well, it actually IS true. If you look on the PasBs for 27/02/1975, you'll see that the film shown to accompany #9 Dream credits BBC New York. There's no record of them going there to film Lennon prior to his OGWT appearance and that was filmed in March 1975 other than the WGYTTN film. So, I checked the timing between the WGYTTN promo film and what was played to accompany #9 Dream on 27/02/1975 and the timings are one second different - pretty much identical and the one-second difference is minimal, and presume the PasB clerk was hand-timing anyway.
Some wag said to me that maybe the Beeb would show stock footage. Crap! If that were the case why wouldn't they just mock that up at TVC.
Anyway, just to make matter more confusing, the John Lennon Video Collection used footage from the Central Park film shoot to make a 'contemporary' Mind Games video, so footage of JL from October 1974 accompanies a song from 1973.
The very wonderful Paul Watkins made a film editing the WGYTTN footage to the #9 Dream single which exists in collectors' circles by synching a dub of the UK 45 to the film.
The footage used for both the WGYTTN original promo film and then used for the TOTP airing of #9 Dream is here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBUFV2c_vcU
The BBC New York Central Park footage (and outtakes) are now with the Lennon Estate and exist in great quality, much better than what is shown here.
So just to recap, the WGYTTN promo was not shown on TOTP and the film element was then used to accompany the song #9 Dream on its' broadcast on TOTP on 27/02/1975.
(yes, I'm exhausted.)
Obscure and complicated ""find"" of the day.... and then some....
(deep breath). Right, back in the day some of the so-called 'smaller' ITV companies ran cartoon programmes. As examples, STV ran Glen Michael's Cavalcade (or Cartoon Cavalcade) and HTV ran a Welsh-language one called Fyny Fan'na.
Well, that's all well and good, but I had this bizarre theory that they might share cartoons, perhaps utilizing some money-saving economies of scale licensing agreement or something. Ludicrous, eh? The wee bairn needs his heed checked, no? However being the stubborn and annoying git I am I thought I'd look.
Erm.... well there's a Fyny Fan'na at NLW. Just the one, 16/06/1981. But what's this? From the 18/06/1976 there's also a RELATED film (mag track of three cartoons, including one Calimero) which was sent via STV. Now, hold on a cotton-picking minute here.... where would STV show three cartoons in a row as part of the same holding? Cartoon Cavalcade! Further research shows the first colour Calimero cartoons were made in 1974 and 1975, dubs being made in various countries, and it's Calimero episode 33. So, applying the logic that STV sent HTV a complete tranche of cartoons from one programme, one could assume that these were the animations shown on 28/03/1976 of the Glen Michael Cavalcade IF STV were broadcasting them in order. (I have naturally confirmed that Calimero was shown as part of GM'sCC during this time).
It's a long stretch actually confirming a Scottish tx date, but there seems little doubt that this cartoon (and the other two) were actually part of Glen Michael's Cavalcade and broadcast in 1976. And it's all sitting in Aberystwyth!
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99283862902419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22Can%203751%22&offset=0 AND
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99281882602419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22Can%203751%22&offset=0
(apologies to my Welsh-speaking friends for not translating this into Welsh, but the post is long enough as it is and the missing programme is STV. Derbyniwch fy ymddiheuriadau gostyngedig. )
PS - There's also another extract of a Fyny Fan'na at NLW, a sepmag from 03/10/1975.
Years ago I found a clip of a programme called Filmharmonic '75, Southern TV, tx 08/11/1975.
The entire programme is still listed as missing on tvbrain, but this is not the case.
A small portion of this show exists on Domestic Video, transferred to digital. The extract features Jerry Goldsmith wittily introduced by Gordon Jackson who reads a tribute to the composer, noting that he describes England as his favourite country, 'so he's obviously never been to Scotland!!!'. Jerry then conducts the Orchestra who play a medley of extracts of his scores. The clip is held by Jerry Goldsmith Online.
(Yes, I've seen it.)
As reported by Tony Rees, here's a new source recording of the Beatles live on Sunday Night at the London Palladium from 12/01/1964:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlEr31qdZZo
In case I didn't mention it before, here's a large extract of a wiped edition of Motormouth from 15/09/1990:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M2b5E6jeX8
Granada Reports is something that - filmed reports apart - was not archived in full until around 2005.
So your average edition will have plenty of bits existing but not the studio-based stuff.
There are a few editions on youtube that I've mentioned before over the years, but there's also one I've apparently missed, that is, until now, which is this one from 11/06/1992 as uploaded by Neil Miles:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSb7CgtPrIw
Joñ Cottingham has spotted a missing Jackanory on youtube.
This is from 01/11/1977 and it's read by Michael Jayston who you might not recognize but he was the man behind a thousand voiceovers.
The story is called 'the Edge of Evening'.
Well done, Joñ Cottingham!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4SxllowkL0
BBC Archives have recovered an audio recording of The Good Old Days from 27/11/1967 with Frank Carson, Nigel Hopkins and Arthur Askey. The recording starts part way through Frank’s set and runs for 25 minutes to the end of the program via a gent called Mark Poole.
This is just me correcting an error not actually finding something.
The film showed for Channel 4's Eleventh Hour on 31/01/1983 which was entitled 'Give Us This Day' is meant to be missing according to tvbrain while the truth is that is exists in full at the BFI on colour film and has been digitized as well.
The reason for the error is likely to be because that the BFI doesn't list the Eleventh Hour specifically in reference to this film. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150098498?fbclid=IwAR1-Oq2wr69CGpiD-AOlMko_dNcSwA1ZBG_Z_i2_vFPDnRx9d0-jMgQodso
Aidan Lunn actually uploaded another wiped programme.... last year.... which I singularly failed to notice, which is probably down to me being a bit rubbish. (Nonetheless I'm pinning the blame for this firmly on the Former Minister for Transport Ernest Marples, the entire Supporters Club of P*rtsmouth FC, the Goombay Dance Band, the Russian exclave of Sankovo-Medvezhye, several wasps, some W.A.S.Ps, the band W.A.S.P, the rugby union team Wasps, 'Wasp Man' by the Who (with Mylon Le Fevre sniffing along in time with the music), a Viking from Basingstoke, celery, sticky-back plastic, the word 'splurge', one of Dorothy Squires lawsuits (although I'm not actually sure which one) and of course that German exchange student who kicked me in 1978. I don't need counselling, Joan and Molly sweep the stairs of my brain.)
Anyway, this is most of an edition of the TVS show Number 73 which Aidan uploaded way back in April last year, and it's from 18/01/1986. Kaleidoscope have a copy of this now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAFDuvByQao
This upload contains what may be the oldest extant version of News in French (the newspapers in England always seemed to call it that rather than 'Nouvelles en Français' or whatever it is. Maybe it was 'Actualités'? I kind of think they're missing their core audience publishing an English title.). The tx date is 01/05/1982.
The Weather Report in French follows - 'Météo' - which I was disappointed to find out wasn't a jazz fusion track - and then a rather intriguing slide for CTV 'de la Channel'. Not exactly what I thought they'd be hiding up their proverbial Manche. (Sont les mots cogito ergo sum).
Then there's the anthem with accompanying footage of the Duke of Normandy (who's a woman) and then black screen and that's it. No more of my Sark, time to go Herm.
(more extraneous parentheses.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJWsaV8oO0
And here's something else I didn't see.... a closedown show.
This is an edition of Company as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection and this one comes from 05/06/1986 and comes replete with adverts, a slide and the Weather which may make it ever so slightly more interesting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQSwUb-oEo
(Why is it every time I find an edition of Company I keep thinking of Straw Dogs? Bizarre.)
It's nice to report something IN an archive which was overlooked.
In the Mouth of the Dragon was a documentary series about Hong Kong, produced by TVS and written by Michael Rodd. It ran for 7 episodes in 1982. The BFI have the final one and the other 6 are lost. The edition held by the BFI appears to have been acquired in the last decade.
While scanning one of my old lists, it transpires that the Wessex Archive have an episode of this as well which was slightly mistitled and somehow I didn't see. While it's impossible to work out what the tx date is, it's more likely to be one of the first six lost ones, at least mathematically....
""5178 - Mouth Of The Dragon Dub Of Arch 164, Audit 19/11""
You know I noticed a few Ultra Quiz '85 editions that are meant to be missing? Well, I missed one. Squid Game with Stu Francis, anyone?
As uploaded by the ADC TV Collection it's Season 3 Episode 2.
The BFI have an episode but it's not this one. I haven't got a tx date yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=trEdX6mQSig
Another Ultra Quiz - this one from the first series - came up on my Facebook recommendations. I've dated it to the 20th August 1983. As uploaded by Steve Thomas' channel less than a year ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXytgJ4ctY
Right, this recent upload from Simon Andrews has a couple of things of interest here for certain select interest groups - me included - as this is all from Border TV and my old stomping ground of Dumfriesshire.
The two main bits I've spotted is a specially-filmed Dame Edna promo (starts at 0.44) and the lesser-spotted Border filler programme 'What's On' which lists events taking place in the Border TV region at the end of September 1993 (15.04). In fact, this is the first What's On I've seen digitized, so this is rocking horse ca-ca rare is you like your TV ultra-regional.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ2wKnomCcM
This miniscule discovery suggests that this episode exists on a domestic tape.
Everybody Here was an early Channel 4 show for children that was mostly wiped with only 2 out of 10 shows currently existing. The show was 'compiled' by Michael Rosen, and it is he who has uploaded this clip. As understand it, Michael doesn't have any copies of the show himself (I've contacted him); this video was originally uploaded by another account that is no longer on youtube.
I believe this extract is from the lost edition of 29/01/1983 (which was my 14th birthday, oddly enough).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAZTY5kwLz0
I thought I'd try and find some more 'About Britain' episodes this morning and go back to the NLS database.
So, one reel - not not, THAT type of Scottish reel - of 'The Forgotten Pioneer' from 03/09/1974 exists at NLS - so it's just under 13 minutes long.
movingimage.nls.uk/film/T2293?search_term=Forgotten%20Pioneer&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
'the darkness inside a dead man's mouth.... you are cold and you cannot describe it!'
This is bizarre. They don't make them like this any more, which is probably a good thing.
Until today, I had no idea Anglia ran a Closedown programme called 'the Living Word', which seems to have been poetry readings if this instalment from 1981 is anything to go by.
I have no clue what the dear lady here is wittering on about - she's Betty Mulcahy by the way - but she finishes one poem and then intones a second one which is not only about faith but also about the childrens' game Hunt the Thimble. (Did you play Hunt the Thimble? You may be entitled to compensation.) I was not only surprised to hear about a game called Hunt the Thimble, but I was also quite surprised someone had written a poem about it. Plus, don't forget, it's simultaneously about faith!
After I had somewhat ran the gamut of human emotion during the Living Word we are soon back in the studio with Katie Glass who is probably half empty at this point, not half full. She's also wearing a staggeringly similar outfit to Betty which presumably means that they share the same haberdasher in Attleborough. Just prior to IVC cutting the mic you can actually hear the Anglia clock ticking.
This is, quite remarkably, the earliest known example of Anglia's the Living Word' and while it'd never win the Rose d'Or I am glad it exists just for the giggles.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYD_Hv5mPXE
A tiny little bit of wiped material for you.
A little while back the VHS Rewinds channel uploaded a wee extract from the missing Summertime Special edition from 09/08/1986 and this is Grace Kennedy's performance from that edition:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvgsNb9ZUsc
Kaleidoscope have got a copy of this now, although I have no clue as to whether it is from the same source tape.
and the hits just....
Again, weirdly, coming up on my recommendations of youtube is this large chunk of an episode of Saturday Superstore from 19/02/1983. This features quite a few of the cast of Grange Hill and it may be the same extract that Kaleidoscope have, but that said, the BBC hold a few other different extracts from this edition and in addition to that there is at least one other recording of a different part of Kajagoogoo's appearance. If that's not bizarre enough already I also know someone who taped this edition at the time but I don't know if they've found the recording yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwAZ0R6Z9lg
As uploaded by Mark Alan's channel.
The science fiction childrens' television serial Knights of God was made by TVS ran in 1987 and consisted of 13 episodes. Some copies of a few episodes ended up at the BFI, but the last 8 episodes disappeared shortly after that part of the TVS catalogue was bought by Disney.
A few years ago, Kaleidoscope managed to get Betamax off-airs of the missing episodes.
Last month the Archive Media Vault youtube channel uploaded the entire series, and I thought I'd let you all know about it, as there's not been many views of the episodes. I was wondering whether this was due to the 2020 limited edition release. While there was a DVD release of the series, but these are edited (between 148 and 248 minutes while these total around 360 minutes) and either subtitled or dubbed.
These seem to be the complete episodes as broadcast.
(Yes, Patrick Troughton's in it.) www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFwFbB_OTZkqkY5Po3xAlAZh-XX7JqrQ1
Very little to see here apart from a specially-filmed trailer for Harty Goes to Dublin from 11/03/1985.
If anything this shows what a consummate professional the man was, as I'm sure this piece would have been delivered without an autocue or script.
As uploaded by the ADC TV Collection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xelddp5oyOc
More minority viewing, or rather 'is anybody till awake?' programming.
Yes, it's another Night Thoughts, and one I apparently missed.
This is from 25/07/1986 and starts about 37 seconds in:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djx0Ab9Gr50
More eeny meeny spuds here....
Back in 2010 or so, I located a 16mm copy of an episode of Rediffusion's "Drama - Mysteries and Miracles' entitled 'the Crucifixion' in the Canadian National Archives, which was great and today.... I've located another copy. The original tx date was 23/11/1965.
This is in the possession of Wheaton College of Illinois in the US of A and the details are here:- archives.wheaton.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/253916?fbclid=IwAR0dbGYEImU7iQ5nJdywZctMxQo9hU_zWEMXZABeiYWnVltplc2nhv7sg5I
Murder by the Book (TVS, 29/08/1986) is a great piece of work with an excellent cast but the masters are presumed lost and Kaleidoscope's copy is off a laser-disc.
This copy isn't - that said it's a very watchable off-air recording.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDv0eeK3u44
Here's one of the other things that only exists on laser disc with Kaleidoscope because the masters are missing.
This is the Prince's Trust 1982 Rock Gala (18/01/1984, networked ITV with no regional credit).
What no one seems to have noticed is that the broadcast was severely cut-down compared to the release, so this is the full issued recording other than the broadcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7lN_yrT_TY
AND
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VWWVPgawfw
The laser disc that this seems to have been gleaned from has Japanese subtitles.
This flew under the radar three months ago, but.... I have to admit it wasn't something I really look for....
This is a clip of the Desford Youth Band performing on a show that wasn't aimed at their core demographic - this is from the Channel 4 show 'Years Ahead', aired sometime in 1988 - the Blue Peter for pensioners.
In this clip you not only get Robert Dougall for your farthings, but also the splendid Johnners who was obviously not doing Test Match Special that week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5-KPTEKGk4
OFF-TOPIC ALERT!
This is meant to be missing - but I'm always a wee bit nervy when it comes to radio discoveries....
This is 'Wobble to Death', which was a Saturday Night Theatre aired for the first time on 06/12/1975.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKuC9Iqbxm4
Champion Brass BBC North West 1976 - recorded on a pre VHS format that was likely to be monochrome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Xn4rTdRj8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKqhd_W1Q_4 AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Xn4rTdRj8 spotted by Lee Barnard and me (1,2)
Here we go again.... it's yet another 'Believe It or Not' from ATV - this is the fourth one in the last few months - and this is the ITV Schools show from 18/10/1977. (My friends in the West Midlands should note this was filmed in Bilston and Birmingham).
This edition is called 'Christianity' and while not the greatest quality, it's still watchable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTout0eRao
The Wednesday Special - ah, yes, ITV's umbrella title that could cover everything from an episode of Survival to a concert of orchestral film music to football highlights and much more besides.
A small but significant amount of the editions are meant to be lost - although I'm convinced more exist but they're just mislabelled and here's more evidence....
This is part of the edition of the Mid Week Match from 10/12/1975 (mainly part two) and it's the UEFA Cup match between Liverpool and Slask Wroclaw. Two things of note - tv historians might want to check out the credited producer of the edition (who later was a presenter on Granada) and at the end of the highlights there's a repeat of the goals which was presumably retained for potential use by either Kick Off or On the Ball. There is a clock at 2.25 in, as the coverage shown here is mainly from the second half.
Now, I'm presuming this is still with ITV Sport, although I have no way of checking, but tvbrain lists this as lost.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc1egTrfVJM
A brief clip of Sweet performing 'Alexander Graham Bell' on Lift Off on 27/10/1971 (broadcast in some regions on the following day) as uploaded by Sweet's Official youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_9DGcvTOoo
My friend Anonymous of Anglia checks the BFI holdings frequently and he has spotted two editions of Take Your Pick that are meant to be missing.
Firstly, a 'preview' copy - a 1964 edition, otherwise undated. They're all meant to be lost from that year. The BFI have this and there is also a synopsis if you go into the main site.:- collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20154417199?fbclid=IwAR2mv-b9y6otg98yLK9uK3enqSKaHAvCeLsSQgMuoGAbtcK5NM2GPopQ4qE
They also have a 16mm of episode 22 - which should therefore be the edition from 24/02/1956. It's noted that it's an acquisition. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmItems/154417210?fbclid=IwAR1IH6fgjhlHHxI0T9uc791sJXx3RjNJbIt5OTVc_AOhEE3Ml1-6nGZMr_w
Well, some of us sleep erratically and I find myself at stupid o'clock looking for lost programmes.
And after a couple of crimson herrings, here we are.
This is another lost 'Believe It or Not', the ATV Schools programme, and this is the edition from 05/03/1975 entitled 'Life and Death' (which was actually a partial remake of the edition from 12/03/1973!).
This 1975 version is the oldest extant example of this programme.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eyhdPpkHcg
This is, technically off -topic, but nonetheless will definitely interest some folk here - and it is a discovery. This is considered a lost film and is on the BFI National Archive's 75 Most Wanted List* of missing films.
Part of the lost 1963 film Farewell Performance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_Performance) has been uploaded on youtube; in fact, the poster has actually uploaded three excerpts on his channel. These are optical - he has filmed these from a TV screen. www.youtube.com/@nazhood123/search?query=bfi
Apparently he has just over half the film on 35mm.
(*which is less than 75 now - and that includes the one I found a few years ago.)
This is fragment of missing BBC Pebble Mill at One, 19/12/1983. Nick Heyward 2 songs and interview as spotted by Andy Karkocki:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1AfHVvNju4
I'm just flagging up a specially recorded promo for Tiswas - this is from 17/04/1979 - with the Tiswas being broadcast the following day. A Wednesday?
? Yes, Easter had arrived and that's why it is being described as the 'Wednesday that thinks it's a Saturday Show'. Even the tvbrain database omits the fact there was a show on this date; Easter Sunday had been on the 15th.
The Just So Stories edition following on exists.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GWVJptqSk
Credit to the ChrisVHS89 account for the upload.
Disney Club? (Nah, stays in all the time....).
Here's a chunk of the *presumably-wiped edition from 31/12/1991 as uploaded on ChrisVHS89's youtube channel. Only uploaded this morning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p21zlluKgTM
*all the ones listed by tvbrain were wiped. This isn't listed but it's very unlikely to have been retained.
'How did I miss this?' part 157....
Yes, it's another lost Big Breakfast....so most of you will have stopped reading already.
This was uploaded almost 6 years ago and I've just spotted it.
Anyoldironpyrite, this is the edition from Friday 21/07/2000, and they're looking for a Weather Presenter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5iP2KESdp8
Upload by TV Gold.
Flashback, 1968, from 1983 as spotted by Nigel Lamb The BFI don't have this episode. They have others but not this. So.... C4 won't have it, the BFI don't have it, ITV won't have it and the Production company doesnae exist..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNnHFNf1QMs
My friend and Group Member Simon B Kelly has been keeping much more up to date than I on the uploaded audios of Crossroads and here's some other things that have been uploaded:-
""19 January 2024 A huge shock for Meg Richardson in an audio recording of Crossroads, with thanks to Sue Grainger. [Missing episode 2234 from Wednesday 4th December 1974]
14 January 2024 at 19:39 An audio recording of Those Wonderful TV Times with Noele Gordon as a panel member 2.7.1976 by courtesy of Sue Grainger.
[TV Brain says this only exists as an off-air recording]
14 January 2024 at 18:59 An audio recording of Stars on Sunday as presented by Noele Gordon 7.11.1976 by courtesy of Sue Grainger. [TV Brain lists it as missing]
12 January 2024 at 20:39 Audio recording by courtesy of Sue Grainger in which Harriet Fraser stirs up trouble between Meg and Hugh, just days before the wedding. [Missing episode 2299 from Tuesday 1st April 1975]
5 January 2024 at 19:02 Audio recording by courtesy of Sue Grainger in which Hugh suggests an Easter wedding to Meg. [Missing episode 2245 - I gave you the wrong episode number in an earlier message - from Tuesday 24th December 1974]""
Huge thanks to Simon B Kelly and, of course Sue Grainger.
My friend Anonymous of Anglia has tipped both me and Kaleidoscope off to a new addition to the BFI's holdings.
This is the edition of All Our Yesterdays from 31/01/1971, which is held by the BFI. This was listed as missing on tvbrain as recently as last week.
Another 10 mins of a missing Pebble Mill at One, this time from 24th February 1983 as spotted by Jon Cottingham:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikIuPKhplrE
A wee bit of TSW for you....
This seems to be from a 1982 edition of 'What's Ahead', the West Country station's local guide to events and happenings. As I understand it, most shows are missing, although the BFI have one.
Your presenters are Judi Spiers and David Rodgers and the band playing us out are the Pete Allen Jazz Band. The clip has only had about 2 views a week since it was uploaded, so it will probably be as new to you as it is to me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0MnXKe3px4
You've missed my Closedown shows, right?
(MASSIVE SILENCE)
Ok, well even if you haven't, here's another one.... and it's TSW again with one of their Postscript thingies.
This is from 04/02/1982; there's also the Weather, Shipping Forecast and the anthem.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-IU5PcFA9c
The Wessex Archive have a lot of TVS material, and they have in some cases complete runs of series, mainly, but not completely local programming rather than networked shows.
Occasionally, a few editions of programmes seem not to be there and this seems to be one of those....
This is a Facing South edition from 1987 (Series 3) and is entitled 'Bus Wars', which is all about the deregulation of buses back in the day. This features Southampton (home of the Mighty Saints, 21 games unbeaten....sorry, had to mention it....!), the Isle of Wight and Southend-on-Sea.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hltajs9dI6Y
Yes, a lot of you will have this, as a copy has done the rounds, apparently, but this is a new upload and the original programme's master tapes are missing, so....
This is a C.A.T.S Eyes episode entitled 'the Big Burn' and it's from 16/05/1987.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEqbuQUmcC0
This is the Skids performing a Woman in Winter from the partially-wiped edition of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop from 06/12/1980.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXGxnsHCi_g
Why the Heckfield Village Hall am I mentioning a clip that's been on youtube for more than 10 years?
Let me explain.... Elvis....my favourite one, the Costello chappie.... appeared on Pebble Mill at One doing a lip-synch of Everyday I Write the Book. I saw this on youtube years ago, and despite researching for ages I couldn't suss out the date of this.... and I still can't.
What makes it annoying is that the single came out while Pebble Mill was taking a summer break.... and then when it resumed our Declan was touring the US and didn't set foot in the UK in August or September of 1983.
So what you have here is either:-
a) a pre-record for September 1983 (possible, but unlikely)
b) the first performance of the song on TV, pre-release (surely unlikely too.... but that said, Bros actually did that!)
c) the (unseen since 1983) Six Fifty-Five Special performance from 05/07/1983 (possible, but I've not seen a clip of that show taking place in the Pebble Mill arboretum)
d) there is no point d). I was checking if you were still reading this.
If it's a) or b) it's likely wiped. If it's c) it isn't, but no one has seen the 6.55 Special since then, to my knowledge.
Even the magnificent Elvis Costello wiki has no clue.
The clip has been dubbed, but no fret, as this was almost certainly a straight mime and no re-recording will have likely taken place.
The uploader is convinced it's Pebble Mill at One and has he videotaped it at the time, I'm sticking with that!
Thanks to squidsvidstv for the upload:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO4lnRUAM3U
Also from the same Pebble Mill at One episode with the Elvis Costello clip uploaded by squidssvidsTV comes this performance of 'the Greatest Thing', uploaded just the now, pretty much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Cd3rqcpgM
Minority interest programming again - as you'd expect from me, I guess - and this is most of an edition of Ford Ski Report from 1987, which is from Sky. From what I gather, this was wiped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWXSPJUP3CE
This is perhaps additional information as opposed to an actual find. I suspect this episode has never been lost, and it certainly isn't now.
Omnibus 'Richter' from 09/11/1969 exists on 2-inch at the BFI. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20150746953?fbclid=IwAR2-ib5PYkuQat1Ii0NBRe7_EDNIEJzhF4gSg0zvuyJkPPSSiU6WXojy6KA
In some ways this is one very good discovery....
I spot very little lost ABC Television, and the main reasons are because of the name - as there are other overseas companies called that - and also because as a thumb rule the earlier a company stopped broadcasting the less likely finding anything missing is. I still look.... and occasionally have success (three editions of Tempo being my favourite example....)
This is a lengthy filmed insert for the Sunday Break from 26/11/1961 and is about Toc H Dor Knap, the religious organization's (then) residence in Broadway, Worcestershire. This is particularly interesting as the Sunday Break was usually live.
Only 5 editions of the Sunday Break were known to exist plus a couple of audio bits.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fEqCkLSGdM
I just realized that the clip was mentioned by Steve Smith in May 2023 - here's his post about it - thing was although the clip is linked, it wasn't posted per se which is why I didn't realize that it had already been mentioned - despite me liking it all those months ago!!!! So credit to Steve and here's the blog about it:- tochcentenary.wordpress.com/2023/05/19/the-sunday-break-toc-h-on-tv/?fbclid=IwAR0IPiGCYjixANpJ7TOFRNEOkGyw7rN41UlBwtVlfQZvI60AGXm3pyOYozA
This is not a new find; this is a superior upload....or rather uploads.
Four episodes of the series are missing.
This is the Lene Lovich part of the Ch4 show 'the Other Side of the Tracks' from 19/02/1983; these two parts are of slightly better quality than the one from two years ago which appears to have been copied from this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7js1mhGB7F0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6cXsp5bB2Q
Once upon a time I flagged up an upload of an 8mm off-screen film synched to an audio recording of an episode of Opportunity Knocks. It existed and that was that.
We fast forward to the present day....the episode is flagged as lost!
Maybe I was distracted back in the day, I don't know.
This is Malcolm Drew's recording of his appearance on the 'Scriptwriters' Chance' edition from 23/04/1973.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2tqSGrQwU
Something I didn't mention before and I've no idea why I didn't spot this....
After Catchphrase, there was Family Catchphrase.
These were on the Family Channel and were in essence made by the same people as the TVS show.
Ergo, seeing as all those Catchphrase episodes from the TVS era are missing (but most are on youtube, as I have previously posted), I expect these to be missing too. That's the 49 editions uploaded here by the ADC TV Collection:- www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohd5UVV10lyDWl7Qrp_OGoQruobpaFHQ
Some 10 years I noticed clips of 'Putting on the Donegan' on youtube. I was also aware that ITV had rediscovered editions internally and after signposting the youtube uploads I left things as they were - although I put uploader Paul Griggs in touch with Kaleidoscope.
There are fifty clips from the series on Paul's channel; 26 come from existing 1961 shows. 23 uploads come from the partially missing seasons in 1960 where 3 of the 8 programmes are extant. A further clip comes from on unknown edition.
It's very unlikely that the 23 clips from 1960 all come from existing shows - in fact it's practically impossible that they do as the series had regular guest artistes featured. This would have cut Lonnie's performing on each edition down to a maximum of less than 20 minutes. Paul told me he obtained these clips from Lonnie's wife and that ITV were not involved.
All fifty clips from the series are listed here:- www.youtube.com/@rickenbackerglory/search?query=%22putting%20on%20the%20donegan%22
OFF-TOPIC ALERT.
German TV? YES. Let me explain why this teensy bit of audio is quite important to some music aficionados....
4-3-2-1 Musik Für Junge Leute (which is often known to collectors as 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet, even though this wasn't actually the title, just a curious homogenous introduction used on occasions) was a ZDF music series broadcast between 1966 and 1970. Many well-known UK and US acts appeared - most notably a pre-fame David Bowie.
Unlike its' successor Disco, almost nothing of the show survives and what little that does has circulated amongst collectors.
Here is an audio recording of an interview with schlager singer Manuela from 1966. This audio is the only fragment that seems to survive from that year and is therefore the oldest extant extract from the series.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N0nPB8dj-Y
The 1969 'Trumpets of Majesty' (14/06/1969) was an early LWT show which is meant to exist as sound only.
This isn't true - the BFI have it WITH sound. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20150016712?fbclid=IwAR2f5P2kn79h19b9bnCArhq9mTEBHJnXN_Jo0Aj_Gg-8Ta1GkTFLvOxZLIo
Another one of those missing 'Night Thoughts' as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection last year. This is from 19/08/1984:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnyZDEKVKgI
Well, it IS Burns Night, and I thought I'd just have a wee look to see if I could find any lost Border TV - my old region.
Thirty seconds later, and here's an inessential, but ridiculously rare Border TV Birthdays from 25/12/1994.
This is actually only the second known example of one of these fillers to exist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdKD1-rA2I
This is perhaps more good housekeeping, as the shows aren't missing and never have been exactly, just most don't exist in their edited UK form.
the David Frost Show, made by the US firm Westinghouse had cut-down versions of the show transmitted by the BBC as Frost Over America -" 'presented' for the BBC by Iain Johnstone", to quote tvbrain, with a small number of editions broadcast over 2 series in 1970 and 1971.
Out of the 7 supposedly missing editions (of which 4 were just slightly cut-down versions of the BBC edits of Series 1 anyway, essentially repeats), the footage from all seven exist in unedited form in the Reelin in the Years archive.
The tx dates of those seven editions are:- 24/06/1970; 08/07/1970; 16/06/1971;23/06/1971; 30/06/1971; 07/07/1971 and 01/09/1971.
I missed this. The wiped First Semi-Final of Film Buff of the Year for 1983, tx 27/07/1983.
Kaleidoscope have a copy of this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspOAy-1IG8
Cheating a little bit here....do some of you recall the Pay-TV channel that was in existence in the mid/late 60s? (I don't, I hadn't been thought of, just saying....)
Anyway, I've found a few programmes of theirs that still exist and here's another....it's the opera the Merry Wives of Windsor, filmed in 1965 by the parent company and broadcast the following year. It is available on DVD. The BFI don't have it. It was originally shown in monochrome.
Oh, and it's on youtube....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmSl8Ih4OqY
(No luck as yet finding Pay-TV's broadcasts from Kempton Park or the two football matches they showed or even their Highbury boxing match from 1966. Might have located the Indy 500 from 1966 but there's no original commentary, so I'll need a second opinion....)
I don't appear to have logged this before; this is an audio recording of Patrick Moore's appearance on the partially missing Multi-Coloured Swap Shop from 19/11/1977:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwo15XPl1dk
My friend Anonymous of Anglia has located some off-screen 8mm silent footage of the Karl Denver Trio appearing on Rediffusion's Five O'Clock Club on 22/10/1963, held at the North West Film Archive.
While this isn't going to be the most important or best quality discovery ever, it is the earliest remnant of that series now known to exist.
www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/default_twocolumn.php?Global=karl%20denver
Ages ago I noted quite a few of those Video Sounds programmes were floating around youtube, so I did a little digging and here's another two:- the Q-Tips (tx 17/04/1982) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EOPbfIAokY and Huang Chung (24/04/1982) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKZWHXgOfcs
A number of the shows were released on long-deleted VHS, but the whereabouts of the masters aren't known. The BFI don't have them and neither would the broadcasters as they were made independently.
Slightly off-topic, but mentioned for several reasons....partly because of the date....
This is a Central News clip from 25/01/1984 and it's a report about Burns Night with the West Midlands most famous piper, Roy Wood.
(please note this is entirely different from the extant MACE clip of Roy with bagpipes....)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCSIg34jGKQ
Safety in numbers is not really the case here.... you know Kaleidoscope located a slightly edited 16mm of 'Pinter People' (BBC2, 20/02/1970), right? Wee man here has just located another 4 copies. FOUR. Baffling. At least one of the 16mm prints is 58 minutes long, so it's the whole thing. Anyway, if you're out at Harvard, pick me one up. That or the University of Delaware, or the West Virginia University or the Chinese University of Hong Kong. That's where the others are, hiding in plain sight....
Another 'About Britain' edition, Burns Country (STV, 23/01/1973) exists partly at the National Library of Scotland. (I say partly as the footage is mute and monochrome....)
movingimage.nls.uk/film/T1686?search_term=Burns%20Country&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
One of only a few About Britain episodes listed on tvbrain that hasn't got a regional ITV company credit is 'the World of Vivian Ellis' (08/10/1974).
After some research, I found it was HTV West that made it and it's held on Colour Film at the National Library for Wales.
This is a fairly random discovery especially as I was looking for something else entirely; in around 1987 Limehouse TV developed a pilot - believed to be for Channel 4 - for a possible series called Combat Karate. For whatever reasons, only the pilot episode was produced and consequently disappeared, thought to have been junked.
However, last year, an extract from a domestic video copy appeared on youtube, filmed off-screen by the uploader Bob Sykes (with some humorous background comments).
While this is not a transfer from VHS-to-digital per se (as it's probably filmed on a mobile phone) this does at least prove that the missing pilot episode DOES exist.
This was uploaded 10 years ago. At that time I was busy with a lot of other discoveries and for some reason missed this tiddly wee bit of audio, although seeing as there's only been 313 views in that time I expect a lot of people missed it too.
This is an audio recording of Clifford T Ward performing 'Jayne' on the Granada TV show 45 on 03/10/1974:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3-LLkwhj-o
Another C.A.T.S Eyes edition 'A Naval Affair' from 23/05/1987, as uploaded by Philip England just the now.
This is a missing episode, but domestic copies do exist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o5WRHhjJUo
(alarm sounds....) Off-topic alert!
Lots of missing US TV programs have been found over the years. I rarely mention them here, but this discovery has maybe more interest to UK TV collectors as it is a show that your average British Islander would know of and it also features Lulu.
This is a partial recording of an edition of the Johnny Carson Show from 26/11/1970 as uploaded by the very wonderful Obsolete Video channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhZKFiEOVo
Rik! Ade!
The Big Breakfast, 30th November 1999 (St Andrew's Day). Wiped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtwp4e6NN-0
A different upload of a missing Postscript (TSW) from 29/04/1987. Yes, two recordings of the same footage exist on youtube and nowhere else....
This one as uploaded by Neil Miles is not as long but slightly better quality:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVYCqlgMJI
The other one was only uploaded 30 days ago - this one's been online a year, but I only spotted it today.
Three lost editions of Channel 4's Kellogg's City Centre Cycling from September 1984.
Glasgow:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=JajKMk2eF9A
Cardiff:- www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=84i7zrP8ZxM
Bristol:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxjSjX9jV8M
All uploaded by the same bloke, incidentally.
....he comes from the land of ice and snow.... well, Halesowen actually....
Here's some footage from a missing-in-action edition of Sky Trax from August 1985 with Robert Plant as uploaded by VHS Rewinds:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWY-kxJ0wds
Back in 1985 Channel 4 broadcast a season of four films made by Mark Karlin about Nicaragua; Voyages (14/10/1985); the Making of a Nation (21/10/1985); In Their Time (28/10/1985) and Changes (04/11/1985).
While the BFI do have the first two on 1-inch transferred to Digital, they don't have the last couple in any form and they were regarded as missing.
Fear not, as they're in the Mark Karlin Archive and also on Vimeo:-
spiritofmarckarlin.com/vimeo-on-demand/
and like buses....
Here's another freshly uploaded 'Living and Growing' from Grampian. This was recorded on its' repeat showing 19/06/1979, but I believe this is 'A Close Look at Baby' (noted as 'Baby' on tvbrain, 17/02/1975); again it's uploaded by the Vintage Schools TV youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJA7_SnFsn0
Just to confirm something I suspected years ago and never managed to check with the tools I had at the time....
The only (partly) missing episode of Full House 'Between Time and Timbuktu' (14/02/1973) does exist. The BBC have an incomplete film, whereas WGBH Boston have the entire thing on 1-inch tape: americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_15-36548fhk
The programme has been on illicit DVD for some years now and is also on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnltZeOvZsw
Another piece of wiped, this is the final episode of C.A.T.S Eyes 'Backlash' (06/06/1987), as uploaded just the now by Philip England.
Although I know most episodes circulate with collectors, it is a missing edition.
A one minute long show I missed.
YES, ONE-MINUTE LONG.
This is an edition of Company (TVS), 07/08/1985. There's not much more to add, but it hadn't been logged previously so here you are:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwv4uQR4Pc
Couple of other things in the midst of all the radio recordings of the Charles Parker Archive at the Library of Birmingham....
There's an audio of a wiped Stars on Sunday from 05/03/1972. There's also a lost Talkback audio from 02/02/1972.
calmview.birmingham.gov.uk/CalmView/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=MS+4000%2f6%2f4%2f2
I'm off-topic again. I will no doubt be punished by being taken to the nearest padded room where I will be played Boney M until I spontaneously combust. This is a radio show.... well actually 2 radio shows from 24th and 31st May 1985.
So here's a 'wiped' but very much existing Book Plug* featuring Sue MacGregor talking to Wing-Commander Muriel Volestrangler, FRHS and bar, on the occasion of the recent publication of her Book of Golden Skits. The Wing-Commander discusses writing, women as writers and her difficult relationship with John Cleese.
(*this may not work very well if you try it, I'm told)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYvIqRyaKo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J50jOKrCkew
Very few people have heard these since they were uploaded, indeed there may be more people in Kirkpatrick Fleming, but I'll have to check.
Almost every year I seem to spot a Dusty Springfield audio recording from a missing show that I somehow failed to spot before and it's not even Reggie Maudling's fault.
Anyweiweiwong, this is Dusty's appearance on Ready Steady Go! from either 08/10/1965 or 15/05/1965 as the uploader and tvbrain differ. Tony Rees says it's 08/10/1965, so I'll stick with that:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXA3mcKo-AU
AND with Long John Baldry:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIi7LXr00H8
Quality's a wee bit iffy, but it's the real shizzle.
It's been an audio kind of day, returning to my roots as someone who looks for music-related stuff. So, as runner-up in Beatle Brain of Britain* in 1985 and 1990 I thought I'd try and look for some Beatles-related audio from a missing show.
And jolly jeepers, here's something it's John and Yoko on the Simon Dee Show (LWT, 08/02/1970):- archive.org/details/700207-the-simon-dee-show
(*no, really.)
The audio of Richie Havens' appearance on Sounds for Saturday (BBC 2, tx 13/05/1972) has been partly hiding in plain sight for years. Some of it was issued as side one of the *(Live) On Stage LP in 1973.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvNUgiYKqnY
*the title differs from country to country.
Living and Growing was a well-known Grampian schools series which was remade a few times, and also falls into a strange category of 'where are ALL the tapes?' The monochrome 1968 series is all held at NLS, and the 80s and 90s versions are also held in archives.
But what of the 70s versions? I was even emailed last week about whether I knew the whereabouts of these....and then today one of the episodes pops up on youtube. Bizarre.
This one is entitled 'Birth of a Baby' and this comes from a Summer Term 1979 repeat. It seems to tie up as having an original transmission date of 10/02/1975 (entitled 'Birth' on tvbrain).
The upload is by Vintage Schools TV:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=flau7kpwXL8
This is an episode of Channel 4's Unforgettable (03/02/1983)- and this is the last UK TV appearance of Billy Fury before his untimely death.
The edition circulates widely on bootleg DVD but is still listed as missing and this is an upload that I hadn't seen up until today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AERs-SYndKY
Two recently uploaded of Midge Ure on the Saturday Picture Show, 07/06/1986, which was wiped:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMXX9TbxZ8g and www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5TrPRSh8YY
I'm not sure if this is lost - the series isn't on tvbrain and the ITV Archive listings are no longer accessible remotely.
One thing I can tell you though is that it's the only Tyne Tees programme in the National Library of Scotland.
This is a Farming Outlook edition from 1979:- movingimage.nls.uk/film/7113?search_term=tyne%20tees&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes&fbclid=IwAR3x1lOYPe1aKCGAQyaaXXTs02VQXoxFr6LRQmdXSfACOMohLKGUisFRL1w
Two audio recordings of lost Top Of The Pops editions exist as a part of the Charles Parker Archive in the Library of Birmingham. These are 03/03/1966 and what is probably 05/06/1975 (mislabelled as the 1st June).
There are also a lot of radio recordings on here:- calmview.birmingham.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=MS+4000%2f6%2f4%2f1
I was wondering about posting this as this exists and was uploaded by the BBC!
That said, it does feature a prelude to the otherwise missing 'the Balloon and the Baron' (26/12/1960) and also what I am sure is a few seconds of the actual title sequence itself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjrQ5GkzxN8
Sometimes the wiped programmes come to you. Here's an example; this Sit Up and Listen, freshly uploaded by Martin Potter, is from 27/12/1982 and is predictably wiped and it just appeared when I refreshed my yotube page....no effort at all. There's also some Thames IVC with Tom Edwards, adverts, promos and a slide.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJL_t-FHmA
The only effort involved with finding this was working out the tx date.... It's actually the early hours of 03/12/1981 - the progamming mentioned comes from the afternoon and evening of that date - so Sit Up and Listen (wiped, obviously) will correspond to the 02/12/1981 date:- tvrdb.com/listings/1981-12-03
anyway.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkM5T7d9YCw
uploaded on youtube around 15 minutes ago by Martin Potter.
Starburst was a LE series on ATV and subsequently Central and it ran from 1980 through to 1983. Last time I looked on ITV Archive when they gave public access - the listings were a bit haphazard to say the least.
In the ensuing years, tvbrain has been updated a bit and there are episodes missing. Six clips from the missing 1983 series are here; you'll note one has a VT date of 1982 and having checked the VT numbers it was actually shown in 1983. It's glaringly obvious that the uploader has a unedited broadcast tape of the programme(s) - it's currently impossible to tell whether these come from one show, two shows or more:-https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN6kw2cRjVCyRLVRev6zW7PwDWVNMkW48
He's found another one....
Jonathan Kydd has just uploaded another thought-to-be-missing Pipkins episode and this one is entitled 'Quiet Please' and it's from 18/03/1980:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vS8pZzJm4
Congratulations to the 3 people who saw the upload before me....
Waiting for me on youtube there's a clip of the Fairey Band playing on Champion Brass in 1976. I don't have an exact transmission date for this, but having checked the BBC NW Archive at MMU, they don't have any complete recordings of this edition.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmEI8BWDjf4
Some folk wish I'd spend more time on finding audio of lost pop and rock appearances.... and they're probably right.
So.... on this site detailing 'collectors' items there are a number of 'lost' bits of audio:- the Animals appearance from Dee Time (17/08/1967), an extract of the Who from the wiped Ready Steady Go! from 24/12/1965; audio of the entire Jimi Hendrix appearance on ATV's It Must Be Dusty (12/06/1968); all of Miles Davis' set that was included in Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (various dates in 1970, not all material transmitted, recorded 02/11/1969); at least one lost edition of Commonwealth Jazz Club starring Tubby Hayes (02/09/1965); Fleetwood Mac from Colour Me Pop (19/07/1968):- rhythmandbluesrecords.co.uk/
Regular readers of my incessant posts here will know that there's an awful lot of Dusty Springfield audio about on youtube from wiped programmes.
What I didn't know is that about 12 years after my first discovery of any of these on youtube that I would have still missed uploads.
My only excuse for this is it comes from a different channel and I didn't see it because of that.
Here's Dusty singing 'But Alive' from Music My Way, 18/07/1973:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZEXaCtLxjw
Most of these are known about but I hadn't heard of two of them, so....
This post is about a divisive movie. It's also off-topic post, mostly, sort-of, ish.
In 1976 a bizarre film was released - All This and World War II - musical documentary directed by Susan Winslow juxtaposing Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with WW2 newsreel footage and 20th Century Fox films. The film was rejected by critics and ran only two weeks in cinemas and has now become rare and never released on home media.
It was actually shown on British TV once - as part of the Rock Around the Clock night on BBC2 on 27/08/1983 - and has become a bit of a cult film in certain circles. This was actually its' British debut seeing as it never made it to the cinema over here. A double LP set was released which was highly successful despite the fact there was no film to see. The BBC don't have a copy any more as it's not their copyright involved. All in all, the film is unlikely to get shown on British TV again....
A DVD release of a film under a slightly different title in 2016 was in fact a similar but completely different movie.
The BFI now do have a print but access to it is restricted.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6LSdRtxDwA
(swears, spills coffee and almost drops cheroot).
While I concede this programme rarely top people's list of favourites I was rather bemused this was wiped to the extent I rechecked a few times, but by golly it is.
Yes, another Big Breakfast (as uploaded by the JMX TV Archive), but.... wait.... this is a one of those occasional-titled Bigger Breakfasts and the reason for this moniker is that the partial solar eclipse took place on that very day, 11/08/1999. While the programme probably added doodlysquat to the proceedings later on, it was rather a memorable day, historically.
I was convinced that all the Special editions of TBB had survived, but this is obviously not the case:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf5_wLmgnig
Just over six weeks ago I rather smugly announced that I had located a colour copy of the Star Performance play 'Noon Wine' in the Paley Archive.
I am now please to announce that I missed the fact that it's been on youtube in colour for 8 months now!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8x2ouhCpE
For the completist: if you'd like to watch the climax of an otherwise wiped Family Fortunes edition, well it's here from 13/07/1980 courtesy of the ADC TV Collection, only a few minutes long:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNOS5BOKmUk
If looks could kill they probably will...
A number of editions of Jeux Sans Frontières not kept by the BBC do survive in the archives of other European broadcasters. Got that? Well, this is one of them; 23/08/1967 - International Heat 6 from Blackpool with the German TV presentation, but obviously the Beeb's footage. The UK's representatives are Cheltenham.
Two things of note - this from the days when David Vine used to present the programme and also check out the rather wobbly credits at the end....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTt8Wtgq-s
....and that's about it for the first 33 days of the month.
For the second time in less than a month, I'm breaking my TV-am ban so I can score points from the DW fans. That's my reasoning for this, nothing more.
TV-am is generally best avoided until a full-scale inventory of their archive is made; I have explained this in a previous post.
That said, it's much more likely that if much TV-am is missing it's probably kids shows, and this Wide Awake Club features Kings Somborne's finest, a certain W. Gummidge esq. This is from 1987. Uploaded less than a year ago.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GHwID1kteM
This is a bit off-topic, but this footage was thought lost, it is British and features a well-known TV presenter. My excuses were already packed.
A few years ago I contacted Colin Grimshaw who made 'Film Talk' for Imperial College, and brilliantly, archived a great deal of the films. Imperial College had STOIC - Student Television Of Imperial College. Some of you may have seen the Jon Pertwee interview. There's a blog about their archives and so forth linked on the youtube channel. I did put him in touch with Kaleidoscope just in case they could help with anything as well.
Anyway, the video is part of the interview with James Burke recorded at Imperial College London. Until now, the interview was only held on the Master (inaccessible) Ampex Type A format videotape. However, during a recent digitising of U-matic videotapes, Colin discovered the last section of the interview that had, at some point, been copied over to a U-matic videotape. So here it is (well, part of it anyway), not seen since around 1980. This is from 06/11/1973.
This was only uploaded today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdA08r6dVrE
This came up on my 'recommended' on youtube - it's a 40 minute chunk of the Big Breakfast from 31/03/1995, with assorted continuity and bits:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSr8PowFvXc
ITV Schools fans may be interested to know I have located both parts of the allegedly missing Thames Schools episode of the English Programme strand 'Shakespeare and His Theatre'.
I've actually located multiple copies as it was sold globally....
Just so I can say I've made my first 'find' in Singapore, a copy is in the Singapore National Library on VHS. I'm guessing they got a copy in the 80s as the two episodes were originally broadcast in March 1978.
There are also copies in Ireland, Germany, Denmark, Israel, the United States, Canada and Australia....
www.worldcat.org/title/317812543
This is another Schools programming find. It's a copy of The English Programme by Thames (10/10/1977) which is part of the Pressures of Life strand and the episode is called 'Speech Day - 2'.
This one's in the collection of the Danish Union Catalogue and Danish National Bibliography in Ballerup, Denmark and I'm guessing by the description it's on U-matic:- search.worldcat.org/title/873365166
Another audio of a missing Crossroads episode has been digitized and uploaded anonymously to the Crossroads Appreciation Society. It's from the Sue Grainger collection of tapes and it's from 27/08/1974. I've included the link:-
www.facebook.com/1823612984741277/videos/1445577896311776/
As spotted by Tony Rees, not me, audio recordings of the band Free from Disco 2 (13/06/1970) and Colour Me Pop (12/04/1969).
Wonderful!
www.youtube.com/@thearchive70sandbeyond/videos
If you like "minority" programming, well, this is a pretty good find.... apologies to the other 99% of you!
Doing Things was a series of programmes made by some of the smaller regional ITV companies, and it ran in 1973. As you probably don't recall, I spotted a couple of bits of the series recently. By golly, I've done it again.
One of the editions was called ' Over One and Under Two Pull It Tight and It Will Do!' (14/05/1973), which I can assure you was not an adults-only programme. Anyway, in the National Library of Wales, it exists, under the somewhat less-eccentric title of 'Corn Dollies'. It's on colour film and seems to be complete. Quite obviously the reason it was thought lost was the fact it was mislabelled at some point and I have sympathy in buckets for whomsoever did that.
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99708829602419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,Over%20One%20and%20Under%20Two%20Pull%20It%20Tight%20and%20It%20Will%20Do!&sortby=date_a&offset=0
Boring preamble bit:- In 1977, the BBC were among 7 broadcasters to link up to make a Christmas extravaganza called 'Star Over Bethlehem'. The programme was actually shown twice by the Beeb on 24/12/1977 and the following day as well.
The idea was so well received it was remade twice (once with 8 broadcasters participating in 1979, and back to 7 again for 1981).
The 1977 version though, is missing, the reason being that the 2-inch tape was damaged and they were unable to transfer it.
Or.... rather it WAS missing, because the short cap-wearing eejit here has just located a copy in the New Zealand Film Archive. I've been looking for this one for a while because I didn't think there was any way all 7 broadcasters would wipe it!
Details:- www.ngataonga.org.nz/search-use-collection/search/TZP21327/?fbclid=IwAR0dbGYEImU7iQ5nJdywZctMxQo9hU_zWEMXZABeiYWnVltplc2nhv7sg5I
This is only a two minute interview from a wiped programme and it's been on youtube 12 years; the reason I'm flagging it is I've never noticed it.
This is an interview with Jane Wiedlin on Motormouth, 29/10/1988. For those of you who don't know her, she was in the Go-Go's, had a big UK hit with Rush Hour and a minor hit with Inside a Dream (which she's promoting here) and was also in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure as Joan of Arc.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2c-zk_YLGzY
The wonderful Jonathan Kydd has uploaded an episode of Pipkins just the now which was originally wiped.
It's 'Hartley in a Hurry' and it's from 15/04/1980.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYRo4ynTeIc
Penny Garlick spotted this excerpt on a Bee Gees fan page on Facebook. I believe it's the missing concert when Lesley Gibb had to stand in for Robin.. Talk of the Town, BBC2, 17/05/1969:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FDqcNJcoUI
VHS Rewinds have uploaded a lengthy extract of a probably-wiped Pebble Mill at One from December 1979 featuring the Hollywood actress Bette Davis. Three episodes exist from that month and it's definitely not two of them, so it's at least a 92% chance that it's wiped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsmHCRX-Ctk
And just like your proverbial buses, Pebble Mill at One clips from December 1979 keep turning up.
This was spotted by Joñ Cottingham, not me.
This is opera singer Rita Hunter appearing on the show. Again a 92% chance it's lost:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Usk0hlcZw
In October 1974 JL released Whatever Gets You Through The Night. This had been released in the States two weeks earlier and advanced and early sales over there were great, so EMI in the UK were expecting superb things for the single. So much so, that they arranged for a cameraman to go and film John in New York on 17/10/1974 to make a specially-filmed promo for the single to be shown exclusively on Top of the Pops.
The trouble was that WGYTTN didn't chart higher than 36 in the UK, and that meant that TOTP didn't show it because of their oft-broken policy of not showing anything outside of the Top Thirty.
Come the New Year and it's time to release that second single from Walls and Bridges, #9 Dream and lo and behold, it actually reaches the Top Thirty. Of course, Mr Lennon still has his immigration problems in the US and he can't really leave the country and this is the time when he's getting back with Yoko as well, so he's not going to fly in and make an appearance at TVC. But wait, say the Beeb, we've got this unused film of Lennon prancing around NYC so why don't we just play this over the record.... and that's what they did.
Sounds too weird to be true, right? Well, it actually IS true. If you look on the PasBs for 27/02/1975, you'll see that the film shown to accompany #9 Dream credits BBC New York. There's no record of them going there to film Lennon prior to his OGWT appearance and that was filmed in March 1975 other than the WGYTTN film. So, I checked the timing between the WGYTTN promo film and what was played to accompany #9 Dream on 27/02/1975 and the timings are one second different - pretty much identical and the one-second difference is minimal, and presume the PasB clerk was hand-timing anyway.
Some wag said to me that maybe the Beeb would show stock footage. Crap! If that were the case why wouldn't they just mock that up at TVC.
Anyway, just to make matter more confusing, the John Lennon Video Collection used footage from the Central Park film shoot to make a 'contemporary' Mind Games video, so footage of JL from October 1974 accompanies a song from 1973.
The very wonderful Paul Watkins made a film editing the WGYTTN footage to the #9 Dream single which exists in collectors' circles by synching a dub of the UK 45 to the film.
The footage used for both the WGYTTN original promo film and then used for the TOTP airing of #9 Dream is here:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBUFV2c_vcU
The BBC New York Central Park footage (and outtakes) are now with the Lennon Estate and exist in great quality, much better than what is shown here.
So just to recap, the WGYTTN promo was not shown on TOTP and the film element was then used to accompany the song #9 Dream on its' broadcast on TOTP on 27/02/1975.
(yes, I'm exhausted.)
Obscure and complicated ""find"" of the day.... and then some....
(deep breath). Right, back in the day some of the so-called 'smaller' ITV companies ran cartoon programmes. As examples, STV ran Glen Michael's Cavalcade (or Cartoon Cavalcade) and HTV ran a Welsh-language one called Fyny Fan'na.
Well, that's all well and good, but I had this bizarre theory that they might share cartoons, perhaps utilizing some money-saving economies of scale licensing agreement or something. Ludicrous, eh? The wee bairn needs his heed checked, no? However being the stubborn and annoying git I am I thought I'd look.
Erm.... well there's a Fyny Fan'na at NLW. Just the one, 16/06/1981. But what's this? From the 18/06/1976 there's also a RELATED film (mag track of three cartoons, including one Calimero) which was sent via STV. Now, hold on a cotton-picking minute here.... where would STV show three cartoons in a row as part of the same holding? Cartoon Cavalcade! Further research shows the first colour Calimero cartoons were made in 1974 and 1975, dubs being made in various countries, and it's Calimero episode 33. So, applying the logic that STV sent HTV a complete tranche of cartoons from one programme, one could assume that these were the animations shown on 28/03/1976 of the Glen Michael Cavalcade IF STV were broadcasting them in order. (I have naturally confirmed that Calimero was shown as part of GM'sCC during this time).
It's a long stretch actually confirming a Scottish tx date, but there seems little doubt that this cartoon (and the other two) were actually part of Glen Michael's Cavalcade and broadcast in 1976. And it's all sitting in Aberystwyth!
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99283862902419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22Can%203751%22&offset=0 AND
discover.library.wales/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma99281882602419&context=L&vid=44WHELF_NLW:44WHELF_NLW_NUI&lang=en&search_scope=NSSAW_ITV&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=NSSAW_ITV&query=any,contains,%22Can%203751%22&offset=0
(apologies to my Welsh-speaking friends for not translating this into Welsh, but the post is long enough as it is and the missing programme is STV. Derbyniwch fy ymddiheuriadau gostyngedig. )
PS - There's also another extract of a Fyny Fan'na at NLW, a sepmag from 03/10/1975.
Years ago I found a clip of a programme called Filmharmonic '75, Southern TV, tx 08/11/1975.
The entire programme is still listed as missing on tvbrain, but this is not the case.
A small portion of this show exists on Domestic Video, transferred to digital. The extract features Jerry Goldsmith wittily introduced by Gordon Jackson who reads a tribute to the composer, noting that he describes England as his favourite country, 'so he's obviously never been to Scotland!!!'. Jerry then conducts the Orchestra who play a medley of extracts of his scores. The clip is held by Jerry Goldsmith Online.
(Yes, I've seen it.)
As reported by Tony Rees, here's a new source recording of the Beatles live on Sunday Night at the London Palladium from 12/01/1964:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlEr31qdZZo
In case I didn't mention it before, here's a large extract of a wiped edition of Motormouth from 15/09/1990:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M2b5E6jeX8
Granada Reports is something that - filmed reports apart - was not archived in full until around 2005.
So your average edition will have plenty of bits existing but not the studio-based stuff.
There are a few editions on youtube that I've mentioned before over the years, but there's also one I've apparently missed, that is, until now, which is this one from 11/06/1992 as uploaded by Neil Miles:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSb7CgtPrIw
Joñ Cottingham has spotted a missing Jackanory on youtube.
This is from 01/11/1977 and it's read by Michael Jayston who you might not recognize but he was the man behind a thousand voiceovers.
The story is called 'the Edge of Evening'.
Well done, Joñ Cottingham!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4SxllowkL0
BBC Archives have recovered an audio recording of The Good Old Days from 27/11/1967 with Frank Carson, Nigel Hopkins and Arthur Askey. The recording starts part way through Frank’s set and runs for 25 minutes to the end of the program via a gent called Mark Poole.
This is just me correcting an error not actually finding something.
The film showed for Channel 4's Eleventh Hour on 31/01/1983 which was entitled 'Give Us This Day' is meant to be missing according to tvbrain while the truth is that is exists in full at the BFI on colour film and has been digitized as well.
The reason for the error is likely to be because that the BFI doesn't list the Eleventh Hour specifically in reference to this film. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150098498?fbclid=IwAR1-Oq2wr69CGpiD-AOlMko_dNcSwA1ZBG_Z_i2_vFPDnRx9d0-jMgQodso
Aidan Lunn actually uploaded another wiped programme.... last year.... which I singularly failed to notice, which is probably down to me being a bit rubbish. (Nonetheless I'm pinning the blame for this firmly on the Former Minister for Transport Ernest Marples, the entire Supporters Club of P*rtsmouth FC, the Goombay Dance Band, the Russian exclave of Sankovo-Medvezhye, several wasps, some W.A.S.Ps, the band W.A.S.P, the rugby union team Wasps, 'Wasp Man' by the Who (with Mylon Le Fevre sniffing along in time with the music), a Viking from Basingstoke, celery, sticky-back plastic, the word 'splurge', one of Dorothy Squires lawsuits (although I'm not actually sure which one) and of course that German exchange student who kicked me in 1978. I don't need counselling, Joan and Molly sweep the stairs of my brain.)
Anyway, this is most of an edition of the TVS show Number 73 which Aidan uploaded way back in April last year, and it's from 18/01/1986. Kaleidoscope have a copy of this now.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAFDuvByQao
This upload contains what may be the oldest extant version of News in French (the newspapers in England always seemed to call it that rather than 'Nouvelles en Français' or whatever it is. Maybe it was 'Actualités'? I kind of think they're missing their core audience publishing an English title.). The tx date is 01/05/1982.
The Weather Report in French follows - 'Météo' - which I was disappointed to find out wasn't a jazz fusion track - and then a rather intriguing slide for CTV 'de la Channel'. Not exactly what I thought they'd be hiding up their proverbial Manche. (Sont les mots cogito ergo sum).
Then there's the anthem with accompanying footage of the Duke of Normandy (who's a woman) and then black screen and that's it. No more of my Sark, time to go Herm.
(more extraneous parentheses.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDJWsaV8oO0
And here's something else I didn't see.... a closedown show.
This is an edition of Company as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection and this one comes from 05/06/1986 and comes replete with adverts, a slide and the Weather which may make it ever so slightly more interesting.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCQSwUb-oEo
(Why is it every time I find an edition of Company I keep thinking of Straw Dogs? Bizarre.)
It's nice to report something IN an archive which was overlooked.
In the Mouth of the Dragon was a documentary series about Hong Kong, produced by TVS and written by Michael Rodd. It ran for 7 episodes in 1982. The BFI have the final one and the other 6 are lost. The edition held by the BFI appears to have been acquired in the last decade.
While scanning one of my old lists, it transpires that the Wessex Archive have an episode of this as well which was slightly mistitled and somehow I didn't see. While it's impossible to work out what the tx date is, it's more likely to be one of the first six lost ones, at least mathematically....
""5178 - Mouth Of The Dragon Dub Of Arch 164, Audit 19/11""
You know I noticed a few Ultra Quiz '85 editions that are meant to be missing? Well, I missed one. Squid Game with Stu Francis, anyone?
As uploaded by the ADC TV Collection it's Season 3 Episode 2.
The BFI have an episode but it's not this one. I haven't got a tx date yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=trEdX6mQSig
Another Ultra Quiz - this one from the first series - came up on my Facebook recommendations. I've dated it to the 20th August 1983. As uploaded by Steve Thomas' channel less than a year ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXytgJ4ctY
Right, this recent upload from Simon Andrews has a couple of things of interest here for certain select interest groups - me included - as this is all from Border TV and my old stomping ground of Dumfriesshire.
The two main bits I've spotted is a specially-filmed Dame Edna promo (starts at 0.44) and the lesser-spotted Border filler programme 'What's On' which lists events taking place in the Border TV region at the end of September 1993 (15.04). In fact, this is the first What's On I've seen digitized, so this is rocking horse ca-ca rare is you like your TV ultra-regional.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ2wKnomCcM
This miniscule discovery suggests that this episode exists on a domestic tape.
Everybody Here was an early Channel 4 show for children that was mostly wiped with only 2 out of 10 shows currently existing. The show was 'compiled' by Michael Rosen, and it is he who has uploaded this clip. As understand it, Michael doesn't have any copies of the show himself (I've contacted him); this video was originally uploaded by another account that is no longer on youtube.
I believe this extract is from the lost edition of 29/01/1983 (which was my 14th birthday, oddly enough).
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAZTY5kwLz0
I thought I'd try and find some more 'About Britain' episodes this morning and go back to the NLS database.
So, one reel - not not, THAT type of Scottish reel - of 'The Forgotten Pioneer' from 03/09/1974 exists at NLS - so it's just under 13 minutes long.
movingimage.nls.uk/film/T2293?search_term=Forgotten%20Pioneer&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
'the darkness inside a dead man's mouth.... you are cold and you cannot describe it!'
This is bizarre. They don't make them like this any more, which is probably a good thing.
Until today, I had no idea Anglia ran a Closedown programme called 'the Living Word', which seems to have been poetry readings if this instalment from 1981 is anything to go by.
I have no clue what the dear lady here is wittering on about - she's Betty Mulcahy by the way - but she finishes one poem and then intones a second one which is not only about faith but also about the childrens' game Hunt the Thimble. (Did you play Hunt the Thimble? You may be entitled to compensation.) I was not only surprised to hear about a game called Hunt the Thimble, but I was also quite surprised someone had written a poem about it. Plus, don't forget, it's simultaneously about faith!
After I had somewhat ran the gamut of human emotion during the Living Word we are soon back in the studio with Katie Glass who is probably half empty at this point, not half full. She's also wearing a staggeringly similar outfit to Betty which presumably means that they share the same haberdasher in Attleborough. Just prior to IVC cutting the mic you can actually hear the Anglia clock ticking.
This is, quite remarkably, the earliest known example of Anglia's the Living Word' and while it'd never win the Rose d'Or I am glad it exists just for the giggles.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYD_Hv5mPXE
A tiny little bit of wiped material for you.
A little while back the VHS Rewinds channel uploaded a wee extract from the missing Summertime Special edition from 09/08/1986 and this is Grace Kennedy's performance from that edition:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvgsNb9ZUsc
Kaleidoscope have got a copy of this now, although I have no clue as to whether it is from the same source tape.
and the hits just....
Again, weirdly, coming up on my recommendations of youtube is this large chunk of an episode of Saturday Superstore from 19/02/1983. This features quite a few of the cast of Grange Hill and it may be the same extract that Kaleidoscope have, but that said, the BBC hold a few other different extracts from this edition and in addition to that there is at least one other recording of a different part of Kajagoogoo's appearance. If that's not bizarre enough already I also know someone who taped this edition at the time but I don't know if they've found the recording yet.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwAZ0R6Z9lg
As uploaded by Mark Alan's channel.
The science fiction childrens' television serial Knights of God was made by TVS ran in 1987 and consisted of 13 episodes. Some copies of a few episodes ended up at the BFI, but the last 8 episodes disappeared shortly after that part of the TVS catalogue was bought by Disney.
A few years ago, Kaleidoscope managed to get Betamax off-airs of the missing episodes.
Last month the Archive Media Vault youtube channel uploaded the entire series, and I thought I'd let you all know about it, as there's not been many views of the episodes. I was wondering whether this was due to the 2020 limited edition release. While there was a DVD release of the series, but these are edited (between 148 and 248 minutes while these total around 360 minutes) and either subtitled or dubbed.
These seem to be the complete episodes as broadcast.
(Yes, Patrick Troughton's in it.) www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFwFbB_OTZkqkY5Po3xAlAZh-XX7JqrQ1
Very little to see here apart from a specially-filmed trailer for Harty Goes to Dublin from 11/03/1985.
If anything this shows what a consummate professional the man was, as I'm sure this piece would have been delivered without an autocue or script.
As uploaded by the ADC TV Collection.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xelddp5oyOc
More minority viewing, or rather 'is anybody till awake?' programming.
Yes, it's another Night Thoughts, and one I apparently missed.
This is from 25/07/1986 and starts about 37 seconds in:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djx0Ab9Gr50
More eeny meeny spuds here....
Back in 2010 or so, I located a 16mm copy of an episode of Rediffusion's "Drama - Mysteries and Miracles' entitled 'the Crucifixion' in the Canadian National Archives, which was great and today.... I've located another copy. The original tx date was 23/11/1965.
This is in the possession of Wheaton College of Illinois in the US of A and the details are here:- archives.wheaton.edu/repositories/4/archival_objects/253916?fbclid=IwAR0dbGYEImU7iQ5nJdywZctMxQo9hU_zWEMXZABeiYWnVltplc2nhv7sg5I
Murder by the Book (TVS, 29/08/1986) is a great piece of work with an excellent cast but the masters are presumed lost and Kaleidoscope's copy is off a laser-disc.
This copy isn't - that said it's a very watchable off-air recording.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDv0eeK3u44
Here's one of the other things that only exists on laser disc with Kaleidoscope because the masters are missing.
This is the Prince's Trust 1982 Rock Gala (18/01/1984, networked ITV with no regional credit).
What no one seems to have noticed is that the broadcast was severely cut-down compared to the release, so this is the full issued recording other than the broadcast.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7lN_yrT_TY
AND
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VWWVPgawfw
The laser disc that this seems to have been gleaned from has Japanese subtitles.
This flew under the radar three months ago, but.... I have to admit it wasn't something I really look for....
This is a clip of the Desford Youth Band performing on a show that wasn't aimed at their core demographic - this is from the Channel 4 show 'Years Ahead', aired sometime in 1988 - the Blue Peter for pensioners.
In this clip you not only get Robert Dougall for your farthings, but also the splendid Johnners who was obviously not doing Test Match Special that week.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5-KPTEKGk4
OFF-TOPIC ALERT!
This is meant to be missing - but I'm always a wee bit nervy when it comes to radio discoveries....
This is 'Wobble to Death', which was a Saturday Night Theatre aired for the first time on 06/12/1975.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKuC9Iqbxm4
Champion Brass BBC North West 1976 - recorded on a pre VHS format that was likely to be monochrome. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Xn4rTdRj8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKqhd_W1Q_4 AND www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Xn4rTdRj8 spotted by Lee Barnard and me (1,2)
Here we go again.... it's yet another 'Believe It or Not' from ATV - this is the fourth one in the last few months - and this is the ITV Schools show from 18/10/1977. (My friends in the West Midlands should note this was filmed in Bilston and Birmingham).
This edition is called 'Christianity' and while not the greatest quality, it's still watchable.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwTout0eRao
The Wednesday Special - ah, yes, ITV's umbrella title that could cover everything from an episode of Survival to a concert of orchestral film music to football highlights and much more besides.
A small but significant amount of the editions are meant to be lost - although I'm convinced more exist but they're just mislabelled and here's more evidence....
This is part of the edition of the Mid Week Match from 10/12/1975 (mainly part two) and it's the UEFA Cup match between Liverpool and Slask Wroclaw. Two things of note - tv historians might want to check out the credited producer of the edition (who later was a presenter on Granada) and at the end of the highlights there's a repeat of the goals which was presumably retained for potential use by either Kick Off or On the Ball. There is a clock at 2.25 in, as the coverage shown here is mainly from the second half.
Now, I'm presuming this is still with ITV Sport, although I have no way of checking, but tvbrain lists this as lost.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vc1egTrfVJM
A brief clip of Sweet performing 'Alexander Graham Bell' on Lift Off on 27/10/1971 (broadcast in some regions on the following day) as uploaded by Sweet's Official youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_9DGcvTOoo
My friend Anonymous of Anglia checks the BFI holdings frequently and he has spotted two editions of Take Your Pick that are meant to be missing.
Firstly, a 'preview' copy - a 1964 edition, otherwise undated. They're all meant to be lost from that year. The BFI have this and there is also a synopsis if you go into the main site.:- collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20154417199?fbclid=IwAR2mv-b9y6otg98yLK9uK3enqSKaHAvCeLsSQgMuoGAbtcK5NM2GPopQ4qE
They also have a 16mm of episode 22 - which should therefore be the edition from 24/02/1956. It's noted that it's an acquisition. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmItems/154417210?fbclid=IwAR1IH6fgjhlHHxI0T9uc791sJXx3RjNJbIt5OTVc_AOhEE3Ml1-6nGZMr_w
Well, some of us sleep erratically and I find myself at stupid o'clock looking for lost programmes.
And after a couple of crimson herrings, here we are.
This is another lost 'Believe It or Not', the ATV Schools programme, and this is the edition from 05/03/1975 entitled 'Life and Death' (which was actually a partial remake of the edition from 12/03/1973!).
This 1975 version is the oldest extant example of this programme.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eyhdPpkHcg
This is, technically off -topic, but nonetheless will definitely interest some folk here - and it is a discovery. This is considered a lost film and is on the BFI National Archive's 75 Most Wanted List* of missing films.
Part of the lost 1963 film Farewell Performance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farewell_Performance) has been uploaded on youtube; in fact, the poster has actually uploaded three excerpts on his channel. These are optical - he has filmed these from a TV screen. www.youtube.com/@nazhood123/search?query=bfi
Apparently he has just over half the film on 35mm.
(*which is less than 75 now - and that includes the one I found a few years ago.)
This is fragment of missing BBC Pebble Mill at One, 19/12/1983. Nick Heyward 2 songs and interview as spotted by Andy Karkocki:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1AfHVvNju4
I'm just flagging up a specially recorded promo for Tiswas - this is from 17/04/1979 - with the Tiswas being broadcast the following day. A Wednesday?
? Yes, Easter had arrived and that's why it is being described as the 'Wednesday that thinks it's a Saturday Show'. Even the tvbrain database omits the fact there was a show on this date; Easter Sunday had been on the 15th.The Just So Stories edition following on exists.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-GWVJptqSk
Credit to the ChrisVHS89 account for the upload.
Disney Club? (Nah, stays in all the time....).
Here's a chunk of the *presumably-wiped edition from 31/12/1991 as uploaded on ChrisVHS89's youtube channel. Only uploaded this morning.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p21zlluKgTM
*all the ones listed by tvbrain were wiped. This isn't listed but it's very unlikely to have been retained.
'How did I miss this?' part 157....
Yes, it's another lost Big Breakfast....so most of you will have stopped reading already.
This was uploaded almost 6 years ago and I've just spotted it.
Anyoldironpyrite, this is the edition from Friday 21/07/2000, and they're looking for a Weather Presenter.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5iP2KESdp8
Upload by TV Gold.
Flashback, 1968, from 1983 as spotted by Nigel Lamb The BFI don't have this episode. They have others but not this. So.... C4 won't have it, the BFI don't have it, ITV won't have it and the Production company doesnae exist..... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNnHFNf1QMs
My friend and Group Member Simon B Kelly has been keeping much more up to date than I on the uploaded audios of Crossroads and here's some other things that have been uploaded:-
""19 January 2024 A huge shock for Meg Richardson in an audio recording of Crossroads, with thanks to Sue Grainger. [Missing episode 2234 from Wednesday 4th December 1974]
14 January 2024 at 19:39 An audio recording of Those Wonderful TV Times with Noele Gordon as a panel member 2.7.1976 by courtesy of Sue Grainger.
[TV Brain says this only exists as an off-air recording]
14 January 2024 at 18:59 An audio recording of Stars on Sunday as presented by Noele Gordon 7.11.1976 by courtesy of Sue Grainger. [TV Brain lists it as missing]
12 January 2024 at 20:39 Audio recording by courtesy of Sue Grainger in which Harriet Fraser stirs up trouble between Meg and Hugh, just days before the wedding. [Missing episode 2299 from Tuesday 1st April 1975]
5 January 2024 at 19:02 Audio recording by courtesy of Sue Grainger in which Hugh suggests an Easter wedding to Meg. [Missing episode 2245 - I gave you the wrong episode number in an earlier message - from Tuesday 24th December 1974]""
Huge thanks to Simon B Kelly and, of course Sue Grainger.
My friend Anonymous of Anglia has tipped both me and Kaleidoscope off to a new addition to the BFI's holdings.
This is the edition of All Our Yesterdays from 31/01/1971, which is held by the BFI. This was listed as missing on tvbrain as recently as last week.
Another 10 mins of a missing Pebble Mill at One, this time from 24th February 1983 as spotted by Jon Cottingham:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikIuPKhplrE
A wee bit of TSW for you....
This seems to be from a 1982 edition of 'What's Ahead', the West Country station's local guide to events and happenings. As I understand it, most shows are missing, although the BFI have one.
Your presenters are Judi Spiers and David Rodgers and the band playing us out are the Pete Allen Jazz Band. The clip has only had about 2 views a week since it was uploaded, so it will probably be as new to you as it is to me.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0MnXKe3px4
You've missed my Closedown shows, right?
(MASSIVE SILENCE)
Ok, well even if you haven't, here's another one.... and it's TSW again with one of their Postscript thingies.
This is from 04/02/1982; there's also the Weather, Shipping Forecast and the anthem.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-IU5PcFA9c
The Wessex Archive have a lot of TVS material, and they have in some cases complete runs of series, mainly, but not completely local programming rather than networked shows.
Occasionally, a few editions of programmes seem not to be there and this seems to be one of those....
This is a Facing South edition from 1987 (Series 3) and is entitled 'Bus Wars', which is all about the deregulation of buses back in the day. This features Southampton (home of the Mighty Saints, 21 games unbeaten....sorry, had to mention it....!), the Isle of Wight and Southend-on-Sea.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hltajs9dI6Y
Yes, a lot of you will have this, as a copy has done the rounds, apparently, but this is a new upload and the original programme's master tapes are missing, so....
This is a C.A.T.S Eyes episode entitled 'the Big Burn' and it's from 16/05/1987.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEqbuQUmcC0
This is the Skids performing a Woman in Winter from the partially-wiped edition of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop from 06/12/1980.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXGxnsHCi_g
Why the Heckfield Village Hall am I mentioning a clip that's been on youtube for more than 10 years?
Let me explain.... Elvis....my favourite one, the Costello chappie.... appeared on Pebble Mill at One doing a lip-synch of Everyday I Write the Book. I saw this on youtube years ago, and despite researching for ages I couldn't suss out the date of this.... and I still can't.
What makes it annoying is that the single came out while Pebble Mill was taking a summer break.... and then when it resumed our Declan was touring the US and didn't set foot in the UK in August or September of 1983.
So what you have here is either:-
a) a pre-record for September 1983 (possible, but unlikely)
b) the first performance of the song on TV, pre-release (surely unlikely too.... but that said, Bros actually did that!)
c) the (unseen since 1983) Six Fifty-Five Special performance from 05/07/1983 (possible, but I've not seen a clip of that show taking place in the Pebble Mill arboretum)
d) there is no point d). I was checking if you were still reading this.
If it's a) or b) it's likely wiped. If it's c) it isn't, but no one has seen the 6.55 Special since then, to my knowledge.
Even the magnificent Elvis Costello wiki has no clue.
The clip has been dubbed, but no fret, as this was almost certainly a straight mime and no re-recording will have likely taken place.
The uploader is convinced it's Pebble Mill at One and has he videotaped it at the time, I'm sticking with that!
Thanks to squidsvidstv for the upload:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO4lnRUAM3U
Also from the same Pebble Mill at One episode with the Elvis Costello clip uploaded by squidssvidsTV comes this performance of 'the Greatest Thing', uploaded just the now, pretty much. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Cd3rqcpgM
Minority interest programming again - as you'd expect from me, I guess - and this is most of an edition of Ford Ski Report from 1987, which is from Sky. From what I gather, this was wiped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWXSPJUP3CE
This is perhaps additional information as opposed to an actual find. I suspect this episode has never been lost, and it certainly isn't now.
Omnibus 'Richter' from 09/11/1969 exists on 2-inch at the BFI. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20150746953?fbclid=IwAR2-ib5PYkuQat1Ii0NBRe7_EDNIEJzhF4gSg0zvuyJkPPSSiU6WXojy6KA
In some ways this is one very good discovery....
I spot very little lost ABC Television, and the main reasons are because of the name - as there are other overseas companies called that - and also because as a thumb rule the earlier a company stopped broadcasting the less likely finding anything missing is. I still look.... and occasionally have success (three editions of Tempo being my favourite example....)
This is a lengthy filmed insert for the Sunday Break from 26/11/1961 and is about Toc H Dor Knap, the religious organization's (then) residence in Broadway, Worcestershire. This is particularly interesting as the Sunday Break was usually live.
Only 5 editions of the Sunday Break were known to exist plus a couple of audio bits.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fEqCkLSGdM
I just realized that the clip was mentioned by Steve Smith in May 2023 - here's his post about it - thing was although the clip is linked, it wasn't posted per se which is why I didn't realize that it had already been mentioned - despite me liking it all those months ago!!!! So credit to Steve and here's the blog about it:- tochcentenary.wordpress.com/2023/05/19/the-sunday-break-toc-h-on-tv/?fbclid=IwAR0IPiGCYjixANpJ7TOFRNEOkGyw7rN41UlBwtVlfQZvI60AGXm3pyOYozA
This is not a new find; this is a superior upload....or rather uploads.
Four episodes of the series are missing.
This is the Lene Lovich part of the Ch4 show 'the Other Side of the Tracks' from 19/02/1983; these two parts are of slightly better quality than the one from two years ago which appears to have been copied from this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7js1mhGB7F0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6cXsp5bB2Q
Once upon a time I flagged up an upload of an 8mm off-screen film synched to an audio recording of an episode of Opportunity Knocks. It existed and that was that.
We fast forward to the present day....the episode is flagged as lost!
Maybe I was distracted back in the day, I don't know.
This is Malcolm Drew's recording of his appearance on the 'Scriptwriters' Chance' edition from 23/04/1973.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2tqSGrQwU
Something I didn't mention before and I've no idea why I didn't spot this....
After Catchphrase, there was Family Catchphrase.
These were on the Family Channel and were in essence made by the same people as the TVS show.
Ergo, seeing as all those Catchphrase episodes from the TVS era are missing (but most are on youtube, as I have previously posted), I expect these to be missing too. That's the 49 editions uploaded here by the ADC TV Collection:- www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLohd5UVV10lyDWl7Qrp_OGoQruobpaFHQ
Some 10 years I noticed clips of 'Putting on the Donegan' on youtube. I was also aware that ITV had rediscovered editions internally and after signposting the youtube uploads I left things as they were - although I put uploader Paul Griggs in touch with Kaleidoscope.
There are fifty clips from the series on Paul's channel; 26 come from existing 1961 shows. 23 uploads come from the partially missing seasons in 1960 where 3 of the 8 programmes are extant. A further clip comes from on unknown edition.
It's very unlikely that the 23 clips from 1960 all come from existing shows - in fact it's practically impossible that they do as the series had regular guest artistes featured. This would have cut Lonnie's performing on each edition down to a maximum of less than 20 minutes. Paul told me he obtained these clips from Lonnie's wife and that ITV were not involved.
All fifty clips from the series are listed here:- www.youtube.com/@rickenbackerglory/search?query=%22putting%20on%20the%20donegan%22
OFF-TOPIC ALERT.
German TV? YES. Let me explain why this teensy bit of audio is quite important to some music aficionados....
4-3-2-1 Musik Für Junge Leute (which is often known to collectors as 4-3-2-1 Hot and Sweet, even though this wasn't actually the title, just a curious homogenous introduction used on occasions) was a ZDF music series broadcast between 1966 and 1970. Many well-known UK and US acts appeared - most notably a pre-fame David Bowie.
Unlike its' successor Disco, almost nothing of the show survives and what little that does has circulated amongst collectors.
Here is an audio recording of an interview with schlager singer Manuela from 1966. This audio is the only fragment that seems to survive from that year and is therefore the oldest extant extract from the series.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N0nPB8dj-Y
The 1969 'Trumpets of Majesty' (14/06/1969) was an early LWT show which is meant to exist as sound only.
This isn't true - the BFI have it WITH sound. collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20%20150016712?fbclid=IwAR2f5P2kn79h19b9bnCArhq9mTEBHJnXN_Jo0Aj_Gg-8Ta1GkTFLvOxZLIo
Another one of those missing 'Night Thoughts' as uploaded by the ADC TV Collection last year. This is from 19/08/1984:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnyZDEKVKgI
Well, it IS Burns Night, and I thought I'd just have a wee look to see if I could find any lost Border TV - my old region.
Thirty seconds later, and here's an inessential, but ridiculously rare Border TV Birthdays from 25/12/1994.
This is actually only the second known example of one of these fillers to exist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwdKD1-rA2I
This is perhaps more good housekeeping, as the shows aren't missing and never have been exactly, just most don't exist in their edited UK form.
the David Frost Show, made by the US firm Westinghouse had cut-down versions of the show transmitted by the BBC as Frost Over America -" 'presented' for the BBC by Iain Johnstone", to quote tvbrain, with a small number of editions broadcast over 2 series in 1970 and 1971.
Out of the 7 supposedly missing editions (of which 4 were just slightly cut-down versions of the BBC edits of Series 1 anyway, essentially repeats), the footage from all seven exist in unedited form in the Reelin in the Years archive.
The tx dates of those seven editions are:- 24/06/1970; 08/07/1970; 16/06/1971;23/06/1971; 30/06/1971; 07/07/1971 and 01/09/1971.
I missed this. The wiped First Semi-Final of Film Buff of the Year for 1983, tx 27/07/1983.
Kaleidoscope have a copy of this.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qspOAy-1IG8
Cheating a little bit here....do some of you recall the Pay-TV channel that was in existence in the mid/late 60s? (I don't, I hadn't been thought of, just saying....)
Anyway, I've found a few programmes of theirs that still exist and here's another....it's the opera the Merry Wives of Windsor, filmed in 1965 by the parent company and broadcast the following year. It is available on DVD. The BFI don't have it. It was originally shown in monochrome.
Oh, and it's on youtube....https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmSl8Ih4OqY
(No luck as yet finding Pay-TV's broadcasts from Kempton Park or the two football matches they showed or even their Highbury boxing match from 1966. Might have located the Indy 500 from 1966 but there's no original commentary, so I'll need a second opinion....)
I don't appear to have logged this before; this is an audio recording of Patrick Moore's appearance on the partially missing Multi-Coloured Swap Shop from 19/11/1977:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vwo15XPl1dk
My friend Anonymous of Anglia has located some off-screen 8mm silent footage of the Karl Denver Trio appearing on Rediffusion's Five O'Clock Club on 22/10/1963, held at the North West Film Archive.
While this isn't going to be the most important or best quality discovery ever, it is the earliest remnant of that series now known to exist.
www.nwfa.mmu.ac.uk/default_twocolumn.php?Global=karl%20denver
Ages ago I noted quite a few of those Video Sounds programmes were floating around youtube, so I did a little digging and here's another two:- the Q-Tips (tx 17/04/1982) www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EOPbfIAokY and Huang Chung (24/04/1982) www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKZWHXgOfcs
A number of the shows were released on long-deleted VHS, but the whereabouts of the masters aren't known. The BFI don't have them and neither would the broadcasters as they were made independently.
Slightly off-topic, but mentioned for several reasons....partly because of the date....
This is a Central News clip from 25/01/1984 and it's a report about Burns Night with the West Midlands most famous piper, Roy Wood.
(please note this is entirely different from the extant MACE clip of Roy with bagpipes....)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCSIg34jGKQ
Safety in numbers is not really the case here.... you know Kaleidoscope located a slightly edited 16mm of 'Pinter People' (BBC2, 20/02/1970), right? Wee man here has just located another 4 copies. FOUR. Baffling. At least one of the 16mm prints is 58 minutes long, so it's the whole thing. Anyway, if you're out at Harvard, pick me one up. That or the University of Delaware, or the West Virginia University or the Chinese University of Hong Kong. That's where the others are, hiding in plain sight....
Another 'About Britain' edition, Burns Country (STV, 23/01/1973) exists partly at the National Library of Scotland. (I say partly as the footage is mute and monochrome....)
movingimage.nls.uk/film/T1686?search_term=Burns%20Country&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes
One of only a few About Britain episodes listed on tvbrain that hasn't got a regional ITV company credit is 'the World of Vivian Ellis' (08/10/1974).
After some research, I found it was HTV West that made it and it's held on Colour Film at the National Library for Wales.
This is a fairly random discovery especially as I was looking for something else entirely; in around 1987 Limehouse TV developed a pilot - believed to be for Channel 4 - for a possible series called Combat Karate. For whatever reasons, only the pilot episode was produced and consequently disappeared, thought to have been junked.
However, last year, an extract from a domestic video copy appeared on youtube, filmed off-screen by the uploader Bob Sykes (with some humorous background comments).
While this is not a transfer from VHS-to-digital per se (as it's probably filmed on a mobile phone) this does at least prove that the missing pilot episode DOES exist.
This was uploaded 10 years ago. At that time I was busy with a lot of other discoveries and for some reason missed this tiddly wee bit of audio, although seeing as there's only been 313 views in that time I expect a lot of people missed it too.
This is an audio recording of Clifford T Ward performing 'Jayne' on the Granada TV show 45 on 03/10/1974:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3-LLkwhj-o
Another C.A.T.S Eyes edition 'A Naval Affair' from 23/05/1987, as uploaded by Philip England just the now.
This is a missing episode, but domestic copies do exist.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o5WRHhjJUo
(alarm sounds....) Off-topic alert!
Lots of missing US TV programs have been found over the years. I rarely mention them here, but this discovery has maybe more interest to UK TV collectors as it is a show that your average British Islander would know of and it also features Lulu.
This is a partial recording of an edition of the Johnny Carson Show from 26/11/1970 as uploaded by the very wonderful Obsolete Video channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=trhZKFiEOVo
Rik! Ade!
The Big Breakfast, 30th November 1999 (St Andrew's Day). Wiped.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtwp4e6NN-0
A different upload of a missing Postscript (TSW) from 29/04/1987. Yes, two recordings of the same footage exist on youtube and nowhere else....
This one as uploaded by Neil Miles is not as long but slightly better quality:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfVYCqlgMJI
The other one was only uploaded 30 days ago - this one's been online a year, but I only spotted it today.
Three lost editions of Channel 4's Kellogg's City Centre Cycling from September 1984.
Glasgow:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=JajKMk2eF9A
Cardiff:- www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=84i7zrP8ZxM
Bristol:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxjSjX9jV8M
All uploaded by the same bloke, incidentally.
....he comes from the land of ice and snow.... well, Halesowen actually....
Here's some footage from a missing-in-action edition of Sky Trax from August 1985 with Robert Plant as uploaded by VHS Rewinds:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWY-kxJ0wds
Back in 1985 Channel 4 broadcast a season of four films made by Mark Karlin about Nicaragua; Voyages (14/10/1985); the Making of a Nation (21/10/1985); In Their Time (28/10/1985) and Changes (04/11/1985).
While the BFI do have the first two on 1-inch transferred to Digital, they don't have the last couple in any form and they were regarded as missing.
Fear not, as they're in the Mark Karlin Archive and also on Vimeo:-
spiritofmarckarlin.com/vimeo-on-demand/
and like buses....
Here's another freshly uploaded 'Living and Growing' from Grampian. This was recorded on its' repeat showing 19/06/1979, but I believe this is 'A Close Look at Baby' (noted as 'Baby' on tvbrain, 17/02/1975); again it's uploaded by the Vintage Schools TV youtube channel:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJA7_SnFsn0
Just to confirm something I suspected years ago and never managed to check with the tools I had at the time....
The only (partly) missing episode of Full House 'Between Time and Timbuktu' (14/02/1973) does exist. The BBC have an incomplete film, whereas WGBH Boston have the entire thing on 1-inch tape: americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip_15-36548fhk
The programme has been on illicit DVD for some years now and is also on youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnltZeOvZsw
Another piece of wiped, this is the final episode of C.A.T.S Eyes 'Backlash' (06/06/1987), as uploaded just the now by Philip England.
Although I know most episodes circulate with collectors, it is a missing edition.
A one minute long show I missed.
YES, ONE-MINUTE LONG.
This is an edition of Company (TVS), 07/08/1985. There's not much more to add, but it hadn't been logged previously so here you are:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hwv4uQR4Pc
Couple of other things in the midst of all the radio recordings of the Charles Parker Archive at the Library of Birmingham....
There's an audio of a wiped Stars on Sunday from 05/03/1972. There's also a lost Talkback audio from 02/02/1972.
calmview.birmingham.gov.uk/CalmView/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=MS+4000%2f6%2f4%2f2
I'm off-topic again. I will no doubt be punished by being taken to the nearest padded room where I will be played Boney M until I spontaneously combust. This is a radio show.... well actually 2 radio shows from 24th and 31st May 1985.
So here's a 'wiped' but very much existing Book Plug* featuring Sue MacGregor talking to Wing-Commander Muriel Volestrangler, FRHS and bar, on the occasion of the recent publication of her Book of Golden Skits. The Wing-Commander discusses writing, women as writers and her difficult relationship with John Cleese.
(*this may not work very well if you try it, I'm told)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRYvIqRyaKo
www.youtube.com/watch?v=J50jOKrCkew
Very few people have heard these since they were uploaded, indeed there may be more people in Kirkpatrick Fleming, but I'll have to check.
Almost every year I seem to spot a Dusty Springfield audio recording from a missing show that I somehow failed to spot before and it's not even Reggie Maudling's fault.
Anyweiweiwong, this is Dusty's appearance on Ready Steady Go! from either 08/10/1965 or 15/05/1965 as the uploader and tvbrain differ. Tony Rees says it's 08/10/1965, so I'll stick with that:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXA3mcKo-AU
AND with Long John Baldry:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIi7LXr00H8
Quality's a wee bit iffy, but it's the real shizzle.
It's been an audio kind of day, returning to my roots as someone who looks for music-related stuff. So, as runner-up in Beatle Brain of Britain* in 1985 and 1990 I thought I'd try and look for some Beatles-related audio from a missing show.
And jolly jeepers, here's something it's John and Yoko on the Simon Dee Show (LWT, 08/02/1970):- archive.org/details/700207-the-simon-dee-show
(*no, really.)
The audio of Richie Havens' appearance on Sounds for Saturday (BBC 2, tx 13/05/1972) has been partly hiding in plain sight for years. Some of it was issued as side one of the *(Live) On Stage LP in 1973.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvNUgiYKqnY
*the title differs from country to country.
Living and Growing was a well-known Grampian schools series which was remade a few times, and also falls into a strange category of 'where are ALL the tapes?' The monochrome 1968 series is all held at NLS, and the 80s and 90s versions are also held in archives.
But what of the 70s versions? I was even emailed last week about whether I knew the whereabouts of these....and then today one of the episodes pops up on youtube. Bizarre.
This one is entitled 'Birth of a Baby' and this comes from a Summer Term 1979 repeat. It seems to tie up as having an original transmission date of 10/02/1975 (entitled 'Birth' on tvbrain).
The upload is by Vintage Schools TV:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=flau7kpwXL8
This is an episode of Channel 4's Unforgettable (03/02/1983)- and this is the last UK TV appearance of Billy Fury before his untimely death.
The edition circulates widely on bootleg DVD but is still listed as missing and this is an upload that I hadn't seen up until today.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AERs-SYndKY
Two recently uploaded of Midge Ure on the Saturday Picture Show, 07/06/1986, which was wiped:-
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMXX9TbxZ8g and www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5TrPRSh8YY
I'm not sure if this is lost - the series isn't on tvbrain and the ITV Archive listings are no longer accessible remotely.
One thing I can tell you though is that it's the only Tyne Tees programme in the National Library of Scotland.
This is a Farming Outlook edition from 1979:- movingimage.nls.uk/film/7113?search_term=tyne%20tees&search_join_type=AND&search_fuzzy=yes&fbclid=IwAR3x1lOYPe1aKCGAQyaaXXTs02VQXoxFr6LRQmdXSfACOMohLKGUisFRL1w
Two audio recordings of lost Top Of The Pops editions exist as a part of the Charles Parker Archive in the Library of Birmingham. These are 03/03/1966 and what is probably 05/06/1975 (mislabelled as the 1st June).
There are also a lot of radio recordings on here:- calmview.birmingham.gov.uk/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&id=MS+4000%2f6%2f4%2f1
I was wondering about posting this as this exists and was uploaded by the BBC!
That said, it does feature a prelude to the otherwise missing 'the Balloon and the Baron' (26/12/1960) and also what I am sure is a few seconds of the actual title sequence itself.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjrQ5GkzxN8
Sometimes the wiped programmes come to you. Here's an example; this Sit Up and Listen, freshly uploaded by Martin Potter, is from 27/12/1982 and is predictably wiped and it just appeared when I refreshed my yotube page....no effort at all. There's also some Thames IVC with Tom Edwards, adverts, promos and a slide.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSJL_t-FHmA
The only effort involved with finding this was working out the tx date.... It's actually the early hours of 03/12/1981 - the progamming mentioned comes from the afternoon and evening of that date - so Sit Up and Listen (wiped, obviously) will correspond to the 02/12/1981 date:- tvrdb.com/listings/1981-12-03
anyway.... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkM5T7d9YCw
uploaded on youtube around 15 minutes ago by Martin Potter.
Starburst was a LE series on ATV and subsequently Central and it ran from 1980 through to 1983. Last time I looked on ITV Archive when they gave public access - the listings were a bit haphazard to say the least.
In the ensuing years, tvbrain has been updated a bit and there are episodes missing. Six clips from the missing 1983 series are here; you'll note one has a VT date of 1982 and having checked the VT numbers it was actually shown in 1983. It's glaringly obvious that the uploader has a unedited broadcast tape of the programme(s) - it's currently impossible to tell whether these come from one show, two shows or more:-https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN6kw2cRjVCyRLVRev6zW7PwDWVNMkW48
He's found another one....
Jonathan Kydd has just uploaded another thought-to-be-missing Pipkins episode and this one is entitled 'Quiet Please' and it's from 18/03/1980:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=00vS8pZzJm4
Congratulations to the 3 people who saw the upload before me....
Waiting for me on youtube there's a clip of the Fairey Band playing on Champion Brass in 1976. I don't have an exact transmission date for this, but having checked the BBC NW Archive at MMU, they don't have any complete recordings of this edition.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmEI8BWDjf4
Some folk wish I'd spend more time on finding audio of lost pop and rock appearances.... and they're probably right.
So.... on this site detailing 'collectors' items there are a number of 'lost' bits of audio:- the Animals appearance from Dee Time (17/08/1967), an extract of the Who from the wiped Ready Steady Go! from 24/12/1965; audio of the entire Jimi Hendrix appearance on ATV's It Must Be Dusty (12/06/1968); all of Miles Davis' set that was included in Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (various dates in 1970, not all material transmitted, recorded 02/11/1969); at least one lost edition of Commonwealth Jazz Club starring Tubby Hayes (02/09/1965); Fleetwood Mac from Colour Me Pop (19/07/1968):- rhythmandbluesrecords.co.uk/
Regular readers of my incessant posts here will know that there's an awful lot of Dusty Springfield audio about on youtube from wiped programmes.
What I didn't know is that about 12 years after my first discovery of any of these on youtube that I would have still missed uploads.
My only excuse for this is it comes from a different channel and I didn't see it because of that.
Here's Dusty singing 'But Alive' from Music My Way, 18/07/1973:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZEXaCtLxjw
Most of these are known about but I hadn't heard of two of them, so....
This post is about a divisive movie. It's also off-topic post, mostly, sort-of, ish.
In 1976 a bizarre film was released - All This and World War II - musical documentary directed by Susan Winslow juxtaposing Beatles songs covered by a variety of musicians with WW2 newsreel footage and 20th Century Fox films. The film was rejected by critics and ran only two weeks in cinemas and has now become rare and never released on home media.
It was actually shown on British TV once - as part of the Rock Around the Clock night on BBC2 on 27/08/1983 - and has become a bit of a cult film in certain circles. This was actually its' British debut seeing as it never made it to the cinema over here. A double LP set was released which was highly successful despite the fact there was no film to see. The BBC don't have a copy any more as it's not their copyright involved. All in all, the film is unlikely to get shown on British TV again....
A DVD release of a film under a slightly different title in 2016 was in fact a similar but completely different movie.
The BFI now do have a print but access to it is restricted.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6LSdRtxDwA
(swears, spills coffee and almost drops cheroot).
While I concede this programme rarely top people's list of favourites I was rather bemused this was wiped to the extent I rechecked a few times, but by golly it is.
Yes, another Big Breakfast (as uploaded by the JMX TV Archive), but.... wait.... this is a one of those occasional-titled Bigger Breakfasts and the reason for this moniker is that the partial solar eclipse took place on that very day, 11/08/1999. While the programme probably added doodlysquat to the proceedings later on, it was rather a memorable day, historically.
I was convinced that all the Special editions of TBB had survived, but this is obviously not the case:- www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf5_wLmgnig
Just over six weeks ago I rather smugly announced that I had located a colour copy of the Star Performance play 'Noon Wine' in the Paley Archive.
I am now please to announce that I missed the fact that it's been on youtube in colour for 8 months now!!!!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx8x2ouhCpE
For the completist: if you'd like to watch the climax of an otherwise wiped Family Fortunes edition, well it's here from 13/07/1980 courtesy of the ADC TV Collection, only a few minutes long:-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNOS5BOKmUk
If looks could kill they probably will...
A number of editions of Jeux Sans Frontières not kept by the BBC do survive in the archives of other European broadcasters. Got that? Well, this is one of them; 23/08/1967 - International Heat 6 from Blackpool with the German TV presentation, but obviously the Beeb's footage. The UK's representatives are Cheltenham.
Two things of note - this from the days when David Vine used to present the programme and also check out the rather wobbly credits at the end....
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzTt8Wtgq-s
....and that's about it for the first 33 days of the month.
